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Draw Close

Definition: Draw Close

Draw Close

Verb

1. Move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position; "We cuddled against each other to keep warm"; "The children snuggled into their sleeping bags".

2. Move towards; "We were approaching our destination"; "They are drawing near"; "The enemy army came nearer and nearer".

3. Pull towards oneself; "He drew the crying child close".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Draw Close

Synonyms: approach (v), come near (v), come on (v), cuddle (v), draw near (v), go up (v), near (v), nestle (v), nuzzle (v), snuggle (v). (additional references)

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Modern Translation: Draw Close

Language Translations for "draw close"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Japanese Kanji 

  

æ"¦ã‚Šå¯„ã‚‹ (to cuddle with, to draw close to, to draw closer to, to edge up to, to nestle close to, to snuggle up to), 摩り寄る (to cuddle with, to draw close to, to draw closer to, to edge up to, to nestle close to, to snuggle up to). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ã™ã‚Šã‚ˆã‚‹ (to cuddle with, to draw close to, to draw closer to, to edge up to, to nestle close to, to snuggle up to). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

awdray oseclay

   

Turkish

  

yanaÅŸmak (accost, approach, draw into, draw near, lend oneself to, roll up, walk up, walk up to), yaklaÅŸmak (approach, approximate, be pushing, bear down on, close, come close to, come near, come on, come up, converge, draw, draw near, draw on, get hotter, get warmer, go on for, near, push, step up, verge, walk up, walk up to). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Draw Close

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-l-o-r-s-w"

-1 letter: clowders, scrawled.

-2 letters: caroled, claroes, clawers, clowder, coalers, coleads, cowards, cradles, crawled, declaws, escolar, loaders, oracles, ordeals, recoals, redowas, reloads, scolder, scowder, scowled, scowler, solaced, solacer, waldoes, warsled, weldors.

-3 letters: adores, alders, aldose, cadres, carles, carols, cedars, ceorls, clades, claros, clawed, clawer, clears, closed, closer, coaled, coaler, coarse, coders, colder, colead, corals, coward.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-l-o-r-s-w"
 

+1 letter: lowercased.

 

+3 letters: candlepowers, cowardliness.

 

+5 letters: cowardlinesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Draw Close


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 72 61 77      43 6C 6F 73 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01110010 01100001 01110111 00100000 01000011 01101100 01101111 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#114 &#97 &#119 &#32 &#67 &#108 &#111 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0072 0061 0077      0043 006C 006F 0073 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3884678923778818571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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