Draw Definition

drô
drawing, drawn, draws, drew
verb
drawing, drawn, draws, drew
To make move toward one or along with one by or as by exerting force; pull; haul; drag.
A horse draws the cart.
Webster's New World
To cause to move in a given direction or to a given position, as by leading.
The teacher drew the children into the room to see the decorations.
American Heritage
To be drawn or have a drawing effect.
Webster's New World
To draw something (in various senses of the vt.)
Webster's New World
To pull down (a window shade, etc.)
Webster's New World
noun
draws
An act of drawing.
American Heritage
A drawing or being drawn (in various senses)
Webster's New World
The result of drawing.
Webster's New World
A thing drawn.
Webster's New World
The arrangement of competitors in a tournament in which the matchups are made at random.
American Heritage
idiom
draw a blank
  • To fail to find or remember something.
American Heritage
draw and quarter
  • To execute (a prisoner) by tying each limb to a horse and driving the horses in different directions.
  • To disembowel and dismember after hanging.
American Heritage
draw straws
  • To decide by a lottery with straws of unequal lengths.
American Heritage
draw the line
  • To decide firmly an arbitrary boundary between two things:
  • To decide firmly the limit of what one will tolerate or participate in:

    The officer committed fraud but drew the line at blackmail.

American Heritage
beat to the draw
  • to be quicker than (another) in doing something, as in drawing one's weapon
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Draw

Noun

Singular:
draw
Plural:
draws

Origin of Draw

  • From Middle English drawen, dragen, from Old English draġan, from Proto-Germanic *draganą (cf. West Frisian drage, Dutch dragen, German tragen ‘to carry’, Danish drage), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreǵ- 'to draw, pull' (compare Albanian dredh ‘to turn, spin’, Old Armenian դառնամ (daṙnam, “to turn”), Sanskrit [script?] (dhrajas) ‘load’). See also drag.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English drauen from Old English dragan

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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