The phrase "drain excitement" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to take away or reduce excitement. Example: The rainy weather seemed to drain the excitement from the outdoor concert, causing many people to leave early.
The environment minister, Liz Truss, is a politician guaranteed to drain the excitement out of any gathering and she duly obliged by saying nothing memorable in the early spinning.
The blunder drained the excitement from the crowd.
He has a rare gift: Even when he does the right thing, by the time he does it and in the way he does it, he drains away excitement and robs himself of the admiration he would otherwise be due.
Teaching topics that did not interest her drained her excitement for science.
Then his excitement drained away, and cold, cruel reality hit him.
The league tinkered with format and scoring, but the sense of excitement drained out of the competition steadily, and after Kobe Bryant, then an eighteen-year-old rookie, became the youngest player ever to win, the N.B.A. suspended the event.
This fervor over local politics — and indeed it is a fervor: for every one Santorum sign on IL-13, there are at least a dozen for Jason Plummer for Illinois' Twelfth Congressional District — seems to have drained attention and excitement away from what should be Santorum's stronghold in the state.
This fervor over local politics—and indeed it is a fervor: for every one Santorum sign on IL-13, there are at least a dozen for Jason Plummer for Illinois' Twelfth Congressional District seems to have drained attention and excitement away from what should be Santorum's stronghold in the state.
But the excitement drains when she thinks of permanent solutions.
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