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Etymology

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life +‎ draining

Adjective

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lifedraining (comparative more lifedraining, superlative most lifedraining)

  1. (nonce word) Which drains life, energy, strength, etc.
    • 1903, Robert Bridges, Now in Wintry Delights:
      those lifedraining slow cures and bedridden agues