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It has to be a dirty water drain btw, can't put it into a clean water drain.

What is the distance to the drain, what is the height you need to overcome?

As someone said raise the machine, if the height is fairly small, and run the pipe along a garden wall or fence.

Yes the washing machine will do the pumping up hill itself, however, it is designed to pump straight up e.g. a 3- 4 ft length of pipe, If the distance of travel is say 6 metres then you're talking about 6m of water to push, you can have a go but it might put a strain on the pump. Also consider that when the machine is empty all the water in that length of 6m pipe will flow back into the machine.

You could plumb it in as normal and have the waste flow into an external tank, this you can then use a bucket to take the water to the drain. Or if you use an eco friendly washing powder/liquid like 'Ecover' you can use the water for the garden.