Draw

/dɹɑ/ · verb

Meaning

Senses relating to exerting force or pulling..

Definitions by Sense

1. Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
2. Senses relating to attracting.
3. Senses relating to extending or protracting.
4. Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
5. Senses relating to moving or travelling.
6. Senses relating to depicting or representing.
7. (archery) Pull back your bowstring in preparation to shoot.
8. That which draws: that which attracts e.g. a crowd.

Example Sentences

At the mountain’s base is the leafy suburb of Kowloon Tong. It has never been a big tourist draw, but in the decade since territorial control returned to China, this quintessentially Hong Kong neighborhood has had many more visitors — and important changes.

After It, Clara became one of the top box-office draws in Hollywood, but her popularity was short lived.

They're going to take away our draw! (referring to e.g. disability assistance)

She looked in [to the stove] and a tight, dismayed gasp escaped her. She slammed the door shut and adjusted the draw with trembling fingers. For a moment—just a moment—she had seen her old friend Annabelle Frane in the coals.

The garden, curiously enough, was a quarter of a mile from the house, and the way to it led up a shallow draw past the cattle corral.

So my friends and I would all chip in money to get a bag of weed or a draw.

I'm twenty-something young with my priorities straight / I need to buy a booze and I need to buy a draw

Selling draw to your mates but it's really Oxo cubes.

Synonyms for draw

Antonyms for draw

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Word Forms

• draws
• drawing
• drew
• drawn
• no-table-tags
• glossary
• draw
• drawest
• drewest
• draweth
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