DRAW UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does draw up mean? 

• DRAW UP (verb)
  The verb DRAW UP has 5 senses:

1. form or arrange in order or formation, as of a body of soldiers

2. straighten oneself

3. cause (a vehicle) to stop

4. make up plans or basic details for

5. come to a halt after driving somewhere

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRAW UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Form or arrange in order or formation, as of a body of soldiers

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

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

form; organise; organize (create (as an entity))

Sentence frames:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Straighten oneself

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

draw up; pull up; straighten up

Context example:

He drew himself up when he talked to his superior

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

straighten (get up from a sitting or slouching position)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cause (a vehicle) to stop

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

draw up; pull up

Context example:

He pulled up the car in front of the hotel

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

stop (cause to stop)

Verb group:

draw up; haul up; pull up (come to a halt after driving somewhere)

Domain category:

driving (the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Make up plans or basic details for

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

compose; draw up; frame

Context example:

frame a policy

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

plan (make plans for something)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Come to a halt after driving somewhere

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

draw up; haul up; pull up

Context example:

The chauffeur hauled up in front of us

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

halt; stop (come to a halt, stop moving)

Verb group:

draw up; pull up (cause (a vehicle) to stop)

Domain category:

driving (the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal)

Sentence frames:

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

 Context examples 

If you are already married (or in an established relationship and living together), you might draw up a new goal to work on together.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“Now, my dear Hopkins, draw up and warm your toes,” said he.

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

The river said, “Run first to the bride, and ask her for a silken cord to draw up the water.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot coffee, for I observe that you are shivering.

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

Nine hundred of the strongest men were employed to draw up these cords, by many pulleys fastened on the poles; and thus, in less than three hours, I was raised and slung into the engine, and there tied fast.

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

A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play; and when I draw up the curtain this time, reader, you must fancy you see a room in the George Inn at Millcote, with such large figured papering on the walls as inn rooms have; such a carpet, such furniture, such ornaments on the mantelpiece, such prints, including a portrait of George the Third, and another of the Prince of Wales, and a representation of the death of Wolfe.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“By Thomas of Kent! we shall make a camp-marshal of thee, and thou shalt draw up rules for our jousting. But, John, who is it that you would uphold in this knightly and pleasing fashion?”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You had better stay till the curtain is hung, interposed Mrs. Norris; the curtain will be hung in a day or two—there is very little sense in a play without a curtain—and I am much mistaken if you do not find it draw up into very handsome festoons.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

If you are already in an established relationship, you might draw up a new goal and make a promise to each other to make it a reality.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It is curious—is it not? —that a man should draw up so important a document in so haphazard a fashion.

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