What's the difference between drained and knackered?

Drained


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Drain

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In one of the cirrhotic patients, postmortem correlation of sonographic, angiographic, and pathological findings showed that the dilated vessels seen on sonography were cystic veins draining normally into the portal vein rather than portosystemic anastomoses.
  • (2) Intraperitoneal drain should therefore be used when choledochus has been explored.
  • (3) It is usually associated with a left superior caval vein draining into the coronary sinus and is frequently part of a complex congenital malformation of the heart.
  • (4) Ovarian venous concentrations of these four steroids from the side draining the tumor-bearing ovary were increased in 40 to 80% of the women.
  • (5) Radioactive lactic acid was detected in the drained perfusion solution with D(U-14C)-glucose, but not when D(U-14C)-fructose was used.
  • (6) Draining of thin films has thus a dehydrating effect as well as a sorting and ordering effect.
  • (7) Regarding ureters read as true positives on indirect study, if that ureter has ever shown reflux at any time, or if it drained a scarred kidney specificity was improved to 97% without changing the sensitivity.
  • (8) In tests on 13 cells pacing at a 200 mua drain without recharging, the simulated mean duration of pacing before total discharge was 4.8 years.
  • (9) An abscess of a lingual tonsil should be drained under general anesthesia, and lingual thyroid should be treated conservatively unless it produces obstructive symptoms.
  • (10) Among them 8 cases were coelio-drained for 24 hours with very little thin bloody drainage.
  • (11) Lymphocytes obtained from lymph nodes draining foot pads infected with R. conorii or R. akari demonstrated cross-reactivity similar to that found with immune spleen cells.
  • (12) The experiments show that the single cephalad channel venous island flap is perfused by and drains through its single cephalad vein.
  • (13) But it has a tainted reputation: the 2007 foot and mouth outbreak was traced to a leak from Pirbright’s drains.
  • (14) The well drained soils of the Suiá--Missu forest are very uniform, deep latosols (oxisols) of very dystrophic nature with pH (in water) between 4.0 and 5.0 (see table 2, p. 203).
  • (15) That would mark a controversial break from its existing policy, whereby the ECB offsets bond purchases by draining liquidity from the system in separate operations.
  • (16) In 13 growing pigs (mini-pigs) all veins draining the head of femur were ligated intra-abdominally.
  • (17) However, we demonstrate that topical exposure to DNTB causes activation of the draining lymph node in mice and the induction of contact sensitization in both rodents and a single human volunteer.
  • (18) The malformations over the surface drain into the superior sagittal sinus.
  • (19) Our current recommendation for initial treatment is excision of the primary tumor followed by irradiation with generous fields to include the primary tumor site and draining regional lymphatics to doses of 46-50 Gy in 2 Gy fractions.
  • (20) The region was perfused at constant flow through the aorta and drained at constant pressure from the inferior vena cava.

Knackered


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Maybe it's left him knackered, but when we talk in the backroom of an ad hoc campaign office in the small agricultural town of Thrapston, he answers most questions using standard-issue candidate's boilerplate.
  • (2) The boys have just done eight gigs in nine nights and they're knackered.
  • (3) Prey is a gritty, concretey number, and while Reinhardt may be the least-kempt of the cast, every character drinks too much, looks constantly knackered and is therefore entirely believable.
  • (4) As Petra, another member of the team, finishes mopping the floors, and Andrew, the shift manager, cashes up the tills in the office downstairs, I slump on to a bar stool, knackered.
  • (5) The broadcaster described feeling like "a sort of knackered version of myself" after the stroke, which left him with mobility issues down his left side.
  • (6) "And watching the match, Pirlo and most of the Italians looked knackered, even misplacing easy short passes to unmarked colleagues, and either not making runs or making runs that were lazy and easy to catch off-side.
  • (7) Respected animal welfare organisations have warned governments for several years about the growing trade in knackered horses both between Ireland, the UK, France and Belgium, and between North and South America, and continental Europe.
  • (8) 71 min: Dean Windass, who looks knackered, is replaced by Caleb Folan.
  • (9) I lean on Suárez’s shoulder and tell him I’m knackered.
  • (10) But one staff member said: "It was like a car that looked good from the outside but it was knackered."
  • (11) ET 1 min: Both teams look knackered, with the exception of Gattuso on the Milan team, who looks like a Tazmanian devil on amphetamines.
  • (12) It's set in and around Kansas City 2044, but the future looks, frankly, knackered.
  • (13) 9.26pm GMT Arsenal substitution: Flamini on for Oxlade-Chamberlain, who looks knackered.
  • (14) It's feeling physically knackered, such as in the knees from years of standing up day after day.
  • (15) Real Madrid 3-1 Atlético Madrid (Marcelo ET 28) Atlético are knackered.
  • (16) "I arrived here just knackered, thinking I don't really want to do this," admits Coogan.
  • (17) He agreed, saying sitting back and absorbing constant attacks knackers you.
  • (18) Ministers were knackered and most had already disengaged from their jobs.
  • (19) Perhaps this is the person she truly wants to be – an ordinary mum, bit knackered, only able to get out of the house because her own mum's doing the babysitting – and was just unlucky to fall in love with Prince William rather than the local butcher.
  • (20) After all, being sleep deprived makes you miserable, knackered and liable to crash the car.

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