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undrained en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + drained.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not 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:

Coordinates

drainless

undrained en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + drained.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of undrain
    form of undrain