drawn

Meanings

Verb

• cause to move by pulling
• get or derive
• make a mark or lines on a surface
• make, formulate, or derive in the mind
• bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
• represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface
• take liquid out of a container or well
• give a description of
• select or take in from a given group or region
  • "The participants in the experiment were drawn from a representative population"
• elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc.
• suck in or take (air)
• move or go steadily or gradually
• remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)
• choose at random
• earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher
• bring or lead someone to a certain action or condition
  • "She was drawn to despair"
  • "The President refused to be drawn into delivering an ultimatum"
  • "The session was drawn to a close"
• cause to flow
• write a legal document or paper
  • "The deed was drawn in the lawyer's office"
• engage in drawing
• move or pull so as to cover or uncover something
• allow a draft
• require a specified depth for floating
• pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him
  • "in the old days, people were drawn and quartered for certain crimes"
• cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense
• take in, also metaphorically
• direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes
• thread on or as if on a string
• stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow)
• pass over, across, or through
• finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.
• contract
• reduce the diameter of (a wire or metal rod) by pulling it through a die
• steep; pass through a strainer
• remove the entrails of
• flatten, stretch, or mold metal or glass, by rolling or by pulling it through a die or by stretching
• cause to localize at one point

Adjective Satellite

• showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; ; ; ; - Charles Dickens
  • "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"
• having the curtains or draperies closed or pulled shut
  • "the drawn draperies kept direct sunlight from fading the rug"

Synonyms

absorb, attract, careworn, cast, delineate, depict, describe, disembowel, drag, draw, draw and quarter, draw in, draw off, eviscerate, force, get, get out, guide, haggard, imbibe, line, make, pass, puff, pull, pull back, pull in, pull out, quarter, raddled, reap, run, soak up, sop up, string, suck, suck up, take in, take out, take up, thread, tie, trace, withdraw, worn

Antonyms

deposit, push, repel