Emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it.

synonym: drain.

Roget 340: dryness etc. adj.; siccity^†, aridity, drought, ebb tide, low water.    exsiccation^†, desiccation; arefaction^†, dephlegmation^†, drainage; drier.    [chemical subs. which renders dry] desiccative, dessicator.    [device to render dry] dessicator; hair drier, clothes drier, gas drier, electric drier; vacuum oven, drying oven, kiln; lyophilizer.    clothesline.    ... show more

Roget 652: cleanness, cleanliness etc. adj.; purity; cleaning etc. v.; purification, defecation etc. v.; purgation, lustration^†; detersion^†, abstersion^†; epuration^†, mundation^†; ablution, lavation^†, colature^†; disinfection etc. v.; drainage, sewerage.    lavatory, laundry, washhouse^†; washerwoman, laundress, dhobi^†, laundryman, washerman^†; scavenger, dustman^†, sweep; white wings brush [U.S.]; broom, besom^†, mop, rake, shovel, sieve, riddle, screen, filter; blotter.    napkin, cloth, maukin^†, malkin^†, handkerchief, towel, sudary^†; doyley^†, doily, duster, sponge, mop, swab.    cover, drugget^†.    wash, lotion, detergent, cathartic, purgative; purifier etc. v.; disinfectant; aperient^†; benzene, benzine benzol, benolin^†; bleaching powder, chloride of lime, dentifrice, deobstruent^†, laxative.    ... show more

Roget 297: ejection, emission, effusion, rejection, expulsion, exportation, eviction, extrusion, trajection^†; discharge.    emesis, vomiting, vomition^†.    egestion^†, evacuation; ructation^†, eructation; bloodletting, venesection [Med.], phlebotomy, paracentesis^†; expuition, exspuition; tapping, drainage; clearance, clearage^†.    deportation; banishment etc. (punishment ) 972; rouge's march; relegation, extradition; dislodgment.    bouncer [U.S.], chucker-out [Slang].    [material vomited] vomit, vomitus [Med.], puke, barf [Coll.].    ... show more

Roget 295: egress, exit, issue; emersion, emergence; outbreak, outburst; eruption, proruption^†; emanation; egression; evacuation; exudation, transudation; extravasation [Med.], perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing; gush etc. (water in motion) 348; outpour, outpouring; effluence, effusion; effluxion^†, drain; dribbling etc. v.; defluxion^†; drainage; outcome, output; discharge etc. (excretion) 299.    export, expatriation; emigration, remigration^†; debouch, debouche; emunctory^†; exodus etc. (departure) 293; emigrant.    outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate; pore; vomitory, outgate^†, sally port; way out; mouth, door etc. (opening) 260; path etc. (way) 627; conduit etc. 350; airpipe etc. 351^†.    ... show more

Dutch: riolering, drainage, afwatering, afvoer
Polish: wysączenie