draining

Thân thiện

The long hike in the hot sun was physically draining.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Causing extreme physical or mental fatigue; exhausting: Describes something that depletes energy, strength, or resources, leaving one feeling very tired or weak.
   • Having a debilitating or weakening effect: Refers to an activity, situation, or process that gradually reduces vitality or power.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The constant emotional demands of caregiving can be a draining experience.
  • After the draining three-hour meeting, everyone needed a break.
  • Working in the emergency room is both rewarding and draining.

Advanced Usage

• "emotionally draining": causing significant emotional fatigue.
  • Listening to others' problems all day is emotionally draining.
• "physically draining": causing significant physical fatigue.
  • The marathon was the most physically draining event of his life.

Variants and Related Words

• Drain (verb): to cause to lose strength or energy gradually; to flow away.
  • The long illness drained his energy.
• Drain (noun): a pipe or channel that carries away waste liquid; something that uses up a resource.
  • The project was a drain on the company's finances.

Synonyms

• Exhausting: Using up all energy.
• Fatiguing: Causing tiredness.
• Debilitating: Making someone very weak.
• Enervating: Causing a loss of vitality.

Phrasal Verbs

(This word is primarily an adjective; common phrasal verbs are formed with its root verb "drain.") - Drain away: to gradually disappear or be used up. - His confidence drained away after the failure. - Drain off: to remove liquid by letting it flow away. - Drain off the excess water from the pasta.

Related Idioms

• Down the drain: Wasted or lost.
  • All our hard work went down the drain when the project was canceled.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. having a debilitating effect
   • an exhausting job in the hot sun

Từ đồng nghĩa

• exhausting