Undrained

adj, verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of undrain form-of, participle, past
Adjective
  1. 1
    Not drained. not-comparable

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    not drained wordnet

Example

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"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."

Etymology

From un- + drained.

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