Meanings
adjectiveundrained (not comparable)
- not comparableNot drained.
Actually the job was almost the despair of those early pioneers, for the surface was a "quaking morass," the surrounding district was undrained, and no sooner than soil was deposited than it was swallowed up, with no apparent effect, for the sponginess of the land remained unaltered.
1934 February, G. W. Tripp, “How Nature Harasses the Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 79
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of undrain
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivenot drained
Opposite
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Origin
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APA
undrained. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undrained
MLA
“undrained.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undrained. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “undrained,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undrained.
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