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Synonyms for drainage
ˈdreɪ nɪdʒdrainage

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  1. drain, drainagenoun

    emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it

    Synonyms:
    drainpipe, drain, waste pipe

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How to use drainage in a sentence?

  1. Edouard Diatta:

    Even if the drainage system breaks, we will not have failed, the most important result of this project is not the newly built infrastructure but rather people's ability to come together as a group and achieve something.

  2. Ventana Wildlife Society:

    This pair of condors is suspected of nesting in a remote portion of the Ventana Wilderness in the Arroyo Seco drainage, biologists have never entered the nest because of the area's inaccessibility.

  3. Eddy Trotter:

    They’ve known about issues with the plumbing in the building and drainage and the standpipe, and the fire department has known about it too.

  4. Jeb Bush:

    This administration has gotten really hyperactive in expanding dramatically what the definition of federal waters are. To get a permit to put a culvert in for your field? Or to get a permit for a drainage ditch or a drainage pond? they impose their will top down.

  5. Darla Davis:

    Nola had a thick drainage coming out of her nose, the vets swabbed the mucus, and cytology tests showed bacteria, so they began treating her with antibiotics.


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