Undrained
[ʌnd'reɪnd]
Definition
(adj.) not drained; 'preserve wetlands; keep them undrained' .
Editor: Rosalie--From WordNet
Examples
- Let him be prepared to be assailed by the odours of undrained gutters, ditches, and roads called streets, and escape, if he can, stumbling and falling into them. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Green, were fiercest in the greater towns, where filthy and undrained streets afforded a constant haunt to leprosy and fever. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But the Germans could never hold Italy permanently, because they could not stand the malaria that the ruined, neglected, undrained country fostered. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Editor: Rosalie