DRAW OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does draw out mean? 

• DRAW OUT (verb)
  The verb DRAW OUT has 6 senses:

1. cause to speak

2. lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer

3. make more sociable

4. deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)

5. remove by suction

6. remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense

  Familiarity information: DRAW OUT used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRAW OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to speak

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

Can you draw her out--she is always so quiet

Hypernyms (to "draw out" is one way to...):

reach out (attempt to communicate)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

draw out; extend; prolong; protract

Context example:

The meeting was drawn out until midnight

Hypernyms (to "draw out" is one way to...):

lengthen (make longer)

Verb group:

carry; extend (continue or extend)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "draw out"):

extend (prolong the time allowed for payment of)

temporise; temporize (draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time)

spin; spin out (prolong or extend)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make more sociable

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Context example:

The therapist drew out the shy girl

Hypernyms (to "draw out" is one way to...):

encourage (inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 4

Meaning:

Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

draw out; educe; elicit; evoke; extract

Context example:

We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant

Hypernyms (to "draw out" is one way to...):

construe; interpret; see (make sense of; assign a meaning to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Remove by suction

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

aspirate; draw out; suck out

Context example:

aspirate the wound

Hypernyms (to "draw out" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Verb group:

draw in; suck in (draw in as if by suction)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 6

Meaning:

Remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

draw out; extract; pull; pull out; pull up; rip out; take out; tear out

Context example:

extract information from the telegram

Hypernyms (to "draw out" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Verb group:

draw; get out; pull; pull out; take out (bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "draw out"):

squeeze out; wring out (extract (liquid) by squeezing or pressing)

demodulate (extract information from a modulated carrier wave)

thread (remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

 Context examples 

“I would draw out if it may honorably be done,” murmured Norbury in Alleyne's ear.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Why, you pile up your hands, choose a number, and draw out in turn, and the person who draws at the number has to answer truly any question put by the rest.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Still, of course, if you would like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do so.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He induced Mr. W. to empower him to draw out, thus, one particular sum of trust-money, amounting to twelve six fourteen, two and nine, and employed it to meet pretended business charges and deficiencies which were either already provided for, or had never really existed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I shall certainly have her very often at my house, shall introduce her wherever I can, shall have musical parties to draw out her talents, and shall be constantly on the watch for an eligible situation.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

We directed him to draw out whatever was at the end of that chain; which appeared to be a globe, half silver, and half of some transparent metal; for, on the transparent side, we saw certain strange figures circularly drawn, and thought we could touch them, till we found our fingers stopped by the lucid substance.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)