Drain

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drain

Usage: v.
Etymology: IBM
Derivation: IBM

drain: v.

[IBM] Syn. for flush (sense 2). Has a connotation of finality about it; one speaks of draining a device before taking it offline.

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Sources

Source: drain, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.

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