Word Finder - drawn

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To move or develop something.

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To exert or experience force.

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(fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.

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To change in size or shape.

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To attract or be attracted.

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(usually as draw on or draw upon) To rely on; utilize as a source.

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She had to draw upon her experience to solve the problem.

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To disembowel.

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To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).

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We drew last time we played.  I drew him last time I played him.  I drew my last game against him.

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To choose by means of a random selection process.

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To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.

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To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.

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To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.

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To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.

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Appearing tired and unwell, as from stress; haggard.

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Of a game: undecided; having no definite winner and loser.

Her attention was drawn to the little filly.

His face was drawn and pale, his eyes wild.

I refused to be drawn into the discussion.

You've already drawn six pints?

I could see a man and a boy some distance away, pitching hay into a horse drawn wagon.

It is collected in accordance with a register of property (cadastre) drawn up for the most part in the first half of the 19th century, dealing with every piece of property in France, and giving its extent and value and the name of the owner.

The characters are well drawn and the dialogue full of comic strength, the scenes knit together and the plot skilfully worked out.

We do seem strangely drawn to war.

The active army and its reserve are not localized, but drawn from and distributed over the whole of France.

A body of some 2000 men drawn principally from Antwerp were cut to pieces at Austruweel (March 13, 1567), and their leader John de Marnix, lord of Thouseule, slain.

It is exceedingly picturesque, the villages clinging to the sides of the mountain glens from which water is drawn for irrigation; and excellent fruit is grown.

A line drawn diagonally down the centre from the isthmus of Kra to Cape Romania (Ramunya) gives the extreme length at about 750 miles.

The water is drawn from the Missouri, 3 m.

A boundary line might have been drawn somewhere to the N.W.

In the opening decades of the 19th century supplies began to be drawn from Banka; in 1820 this island contributed 1200 tons; the production was increased to 12,000 tons in 1900, when a diminution set in, 9960 tons being the output during 1905.

In the cinctus Gabinus, which was the fashion adopted in early times when fighting was in prospect, the end of the toga was drawn tightly round the waist and formed a kind of girdle; this was retained in certain official functions, such as the opening of the emple of Janus in historical times.

Jim's eyes stuck out as much as those of the Sawhorse, and he stared at the creature with his ears erect and his long head drawn back until it rested against his arched neck.

The chariot was drawn on this occasion by the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger, who were decorated with immense pink and blue bows.

Men and boys pulled with all their might; and Putnam and the wolf were drawn out together.

A comparative experience drawn from written descriptions and from her teacher's words has kept her free from errors in her use of terms of sound and vision.

You just sit still and are drawn along.

While he was speaking, the curtain of smoke that had concealed the hollow, driven by a rising wind, began to move from right to left as if drawn by an invisible hand, and the hill opposite, with the French moving about on it, opened out before them.

Her cheeks had sunk, her lip was drawn up, and her eyes drawn down.

Rostov himself, his legs well back and his stomach drawn in and feeling himself one with his horse, rode past the Emperor with a frowning but blissful face "like a vewy devil," as Denisov expressed it.

In it was the petition to the Emperor drawn up by the auditor, in which Denisov, without alluding to the offenses of the commissariat officials, simply asked for pardon.

A moment later everyone had drawn up round the crowd of dogs.

In a sleigh drawn by two gray trotting-horses that were bespattering the dashboard with snow, Anatole and his constant companion Makarin dashed past.

The wine is drawn and must be drunk.

The ranks of the infantry disappeared amid the smoke but their long- drawn shout and rapid musketry firing could still be heard.

The stored tears continued to flow and the sobs wracked her body, robbing it of the ability to speak – barely allowing a breath to be drawn.

These in the middle, I'm guessing about, Tamer said, circling half the images he'd drawn.

She twisted, one knife drawn before she recognized Darian's dark shape crouched over her feet.

Eyes on the ground, she retraced their steps until she found the circle she'd drawn.

He'd been drawn to Jenn since he'd started to recover his mind.

He crouched next to the circle Jenn had drawn around the portal.

The woman finally emerged, pale and drawn but scrubbed clean.

There were no sounds of pursuit, no sounds of arrows being drawn or fired.

It was a detailed map, with the sea painted blue and the land border meticulously drawn.

I found my advisor with his sword drawn standing over my daughter's body.

The chamber's drapes were drawn, extinguishing all but enough light to see.

He didn't have time to read, yet he felt drawn to it the same way he was drawn to her.

Her auburn curls were drawn up into a decorative band at the side of her head.

His attention was instantly drawn to the shattered cellular phone.

I thought women were drawn to jackasses.

These rules were borrowed almost word for word from the project drawn up at the Brussels international conference of 1874, which, though never ratified, was practically incorporated in the army regulations issued by the Russian government in connexion with the war of 18 77-7 8.

The statutes, not drawn up until the 2nd of April 1443, raised the number of the college to forty.

He is said to have established the rule that any candidate for the office should meet and slay in single combat its holder at the time, who always went about armed with a drawn sword in anticipation of the struggle.

Her psychology is not subtle or profound, but her leading characters are clearly conceived and drawn in broad, bold outlines.

Air is drawn by an aspirator between the surfaces, and the ions having the opposite sign to the inner cylinder are deposited on it.

Sieyês had drawn up at his request, and was elected in three - by the noblesse of Paris, Villers-Cotterets and Crepy-en-Valois.