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drain someone's energy
make someone feel tired
To drain someone's energy is to make them feel tired and less able to do things.
Hear it in real life
Why are you so quiet today?
That long meeting drained my energy.
Constant notifications drain my energy when I am trying to concentrate.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: The meeting drained my energies.
Say: The meeting drained my energy.
In this common expression, "energy" is normally uncountable.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
drain someone's energy; be drained of energy
Your turn: say it out loud
Constant notifications drain my energy when I am trying to concentrate.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
drain someone's energy
make someone feel tired
“Constant notifications drain my energy when I am trying to concentrate.”
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