The phrase "a draining effect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that causes fatigue, exhaustion, or a reduction in energy.
Example: "The long hours of work had a draining effect on her, leaving her too tired to enjoy her evenings."
Alternatives: "an exhausting impact" or "a depleting influence."
"It has a draining effect on everybody and a lot of the lads are struggling with the situation, because of mortgage payments, etc," said manager Phil Parkinson.
A draining effect is significant for these chains and must be taken into account to determine the correct values of unperturbed dimensions of the macromolecule.
Nonetheless, if tiredness and low energy levels have been a problem for Italy in Euro 12, being taken to extra time and penalties in their last match could have a draining effect.
As unnecessarily conceded away goals go, it was not quite up there with John Arne Riise's own goal in stoppage time in last season's semi-final, but it still had a draining effect on the half time conversations, presumably within the home dressing room as well as without.
It just seemed to continue and continue and it had a draining effect on the player.
More significantly, though, Argentina will never have to play in the heat of the North and North East which is not only uncomfortable, it also has a draining effect on performance.
But American soccer has a core problems that neither Klinsmann or Sunil Gulati can solve: a pay-to-play system that largely limits the available soccer talent pool, the dearth of qualified coaches at every level, and college soccer's draining effect on a player's development cycle.
Also not in doubt, however, is the draining effect that a single high-maintenance, mega-talented individual has had, from doubts about his own batting, over a considerable period, and the inevitable fallout from his own sacking as captain, to the current disaffection as a result of his bewilderingly ever-changing agenda.
Match of the Day commentator Jonathan Pearce: The reigning champions have enough quality to field two terrific teams and that will be a key factor as the draining effect of the 2014 World Cup takes its toll on many of their challengers in the last third of the season.
Juxtaposing the grotesque and the banal, Aira builds a subtle satire about society's draining effect on individuals.
Focusing on disturbance waves as the predominant mechanism for transporting the liquid in the annular film from the bottom to the top of the tube to counterbalance the draining effect of gravity, a new prediction method for the degree of asymmetry in the annular liquid film is proposed that outperforms existing correlations.
