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Meaning of drainful | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Enough to fill a drain.

Examples

“Stop wasting talent by the drainful.”
“On certain nights, she gave us baths and then hair washes and then dessert, sort of side by side, however many could fit, we knelt at the edge of the tub after we had bathed, leaning over a drainful of suds, just as we had waited in that same huddle every Christmas morning at the top of the stairs before being allowed down to see the tree and attack the pile.”
“Old Gotta hit that drainful of green cow-muck from such a height, the colour was driven through the pores and deep under his skin.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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