DRAWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drawn mean? 

• DRAWN (adjective)
  The adjective DRAWN has 2 senses:

1. showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering

2. having the curtains or draperies closed or pulled shut

  Familiarity information: DRAWN used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRAWN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering

Synonyms:

careworn; drawn; haggard; raddled; worn

Context example:

shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face

Similar:

tired (depleted of strength or energy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having the curtains or draperies closed or pulled shut

Context example:

the drawn draperies kept direct sunlight from fading the rug

Similar:

closed (not open or affording passage or access)

 Context examples 

How did it happen that they had drawn nothing from them?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It oughtn't to be drawn; that's the fact.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Then there were long, deep-drawn sniffs.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The neck was drawn out like a plucked chicken’s, making the rest of him seem the more obese and unnatural by the contrast.

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

Looking back we saw only the dense screen of trees, but that long-drawn yell told us how many of our enemies lurked among them.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Franky Zapata also invented the original Flyboard, which is propelled by jets of water drawn up by a hose, unlike the Flyboard Air, which uses jets of air.

(French inventor Franky Zapata successfully crosses English Channel on jet-powered hoverboard, Wikinews)

“That circle is drawn at a radius of ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir.”

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

Even the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman could sit on it, and were drawn swiftly by their queer little horses to the place where the Lion lay asleep.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

I have often seen the militia of Lorbrulgrud drawn out to exercise, in a great field near the city of twenty miles square.

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

He got interested in spite of himself, and before he knew it, was drawn into the circle.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)