Wiredraw

Quick meaning: Wiredraw is a verb meaning (transitive, now rare) To stretch (some physical thing) out, as though drawing wire; to elongate.

Meaning

(transitive, now rare) To stretch (some physical thing) out, as though drawing wire; to elongate.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, obsolete) To stretch (words, a meaning etc.) to suit one's own purpose.

Example Sentences

I am of opinion that the uncontrouled libertie, that all men have to wrest, dissipate, and wyredraw a word so religious and important, to so many severall idiomes, hath much more danger than profit following it.

The vision was, however, so wiredrawn, it was so evident that the nobleman had not got his own consent to the vague something floating in his "mind's eye," that he left her in the dark as to his wishes and intentions beyond the belief that he was determined to seek, in the matrimonial state, that happiness which had hitherto eluded his pursuit,.

Word Forms

• wiredraws
• wiredrawing
• wiredrew
• wiredrawn
• wire-draw

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include draw, elongate, produce, protract, stretch, intend.

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