The phrase "attempt to drain" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an effort to remove or deplete something, such as energy, resources, or liquid.
Example: "The engineers made an attempt to drain the excess water from the flooded area."
Alternatives: "effort to deplete" or "try to remove".
It's a deliberate attempt to drain the act of violation of its verbal power.
The Suwannee Canal, left over from an unsuccessful attempt to drain the swamp in the 1890's, cuts a straight path through the swamp.
He has had an uncomfortably close relationship with drugs and alcohol, and his first two albums often turned his anger inward, in an attempt to drain emotional abscesses and cauterize unseen wounds.
As a result of the sanctions, U.S. companies are prohibited from lending the bank money or buying equity in the institution, an attempt to drain resources from the Russian economy.
Adnan Pachachi, an Iraqi politician and ex-governing council member, said: "There is evidence of a systematic and very sad attempt to drain Iraq of its brains". Baghdad A car bomb in Sadr City, a Shia district, killed two and wounded 21, police said.
In an attempt to drain this lake, engineers in 1920 dug a drain tunnel over 955 m in length from the outer flank of the cone into the crater but eventually abandoned the project because of ongoing volcanic activity and other technical difficulties.
Attempts to drain the lake, all unsuccessful, date from the 1880s.
In fact, attempts to drain the marshes had been going on for years.
Gullies may have developed from deliberate attempts to drain wetlands for agriculture.
Sustainable development has not been South Florida's forte: for example, the early 20th-century attempts to drain the Everglades.
Though an autopsy has not been released, Francis-Williams said there was "swelling on the brain and fluid on the brain because the doctors attempted to drain that.
