The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SAPS which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2023.
Drains crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SAPS | 83 % | 4 |
| DEPLETES | 6 % | 8 |
| SEWERS | 5 % | 6 |
| USESUP | 3 % | 6 |
| INTAKES | 2 % | 7 |
| ENERVATES | 2 % | 9 |
Why may SAPS be the right solution?
"SAPS" is a synonym for "drains" meaning to exhaust or weaken.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Drains
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- drainpipe
- waste pipe
- drainage
- run out
- sap
- debilitate
- enfeeble
- flow away
- flow off
- avenues
- brains
- canal
Crossword Answer definitions
SAPS noun- The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
- Any juice.
- Vitality.
- A naive person; a simpleton
- To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).
- To exhaust the vitality of.
- A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
- To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
- A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
- To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
- To pierce with saps.
- To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
- To gradually weaken.
- To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SAPS
More clues leading to the result DEPLETES
- Drains
- Seriously reduces
- Uses up
- Drains.
- Exhausts
- Empties
- Exhausts, as resources
- Empties wholly or partly
- Gradually uses up resources
More clues leading to the result SEWERS
- "Les Miserables" setting
- Clothing makers
- They're under cities
- Ed Norton's milieux
- Seamstresses
- Pipes down?
- Needle workers
- Needle wielders
- Underground sanitation conduits
- Waste conduits
More clues leading to the result USESUP
- Exhausts
- Drains
- Consumes completely
- Finishes off (6)
- Runs out of
- Finishes off
- Depletes
- Has the last of
- Expends fully
- Expends
More clues leading to the result INTAKES
- Openings for a fill
- Engine parts
- Pipe openings
- Some pipe openings
- Absorbed amounts
- What some engine valves regulate
- Aspirations
- See 7-Down
- Consumed amounts
- Air passageways