drained
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The culvert once drained waste water from King James VI Hospital, which was built around 1749-1750 and was converted into flats in the 1970s.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
After a prolonged wait to charge a drained battery, the aircraft took another 10 minutes to get airborne.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Yet bogs are fragile, and as they are drained, burned or dug up to gather fuel or create more land for agriculture, they release millennia of stored greenhouse gases into the air.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
But these sights are drained of their warmth, depicted with a cold, eerie hum that, when it bleeds into the roar of suffering miles away, becomes a deafening cacophony.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2026
As the color drained completely from the flower, it withered from a glowing pink to a dusty gray.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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