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drainage
/ ˈdreɪnɪdʒ /
noun
- the process or a method of draining
- a system of watercourses or drains
- liquid, sewage, etc, that is drained away
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- over·drainage noun
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Example Sentences
It would only be a few more months before his boss Muammar would be shot while attempting to escape through a drainage pipe.
German planes landed in New Orleans to deliver food rations, as well as a team of drainage specialists.
Acid rock drainage is the single biggest pollutant associated with copper mining.
During a morning press conference, Dormer said he believed that Gilbert most likely fell into a drainage ditch and drowned.
Sixteen days later, his severed head was found in a drainage ditch miles from their home.
The payment for this drainage was to be one-twentieth part of the ore raised by the different mines.
All drainage from such land had to be pumped over the river bank, in many places 10 feet above the cultivated surface.
It is thus obvious that the drainage of the soil modifies its properties both mechanically and chemically.
Thus in the Laurentian Lakes above Ontario the geologist finds evidence that the drainage lines have again and again been changed.
A "culvert" is a bridge of small span giving passage to drainage.
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