This next operation drains the node completely, by flushing all memtables to disk and stopping all connections from the client and nodes. Hence this operation will definitely require a restart in order to bring it back up. nodetool drain is generally used while upgrading a Cassandra process:
$CASSANDRA_HOME/bin/nodetool drain
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