Draw Off

Definition: Draw Off

Draw Off

Verb

1. Remove by drawing or pulling; "She placed the tray down and drew off the cloth"; "draw away the cloth that is covering the cheese".

2. Remove (a commodity) from (a supply source); "She drew $2,000 from the account"; "The doctors drew medical supplies from the hospital's emergency bank".

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

Synonyms: Draw Off

Ejection

Tap, draw off; bale out, lade out; let blood, broach.

Empty; drain to the dregs; sweep off; clear off, clear out, clear away; suck, draw off; clean out, make a clean sweep of, clear decks, purge.

Hindrance

Keep off, stave off, ward off; obviate; avert, antevert; turn aside, draw off, prevent, forefend, nip in the bud; retard, slacken, check, let; counteract, countercheck; preclude, debar, foreclose, estop; inhibit; shackle; (restrain); restrict.

Inattention

Call off the attention, draw off the attention, call away the attention, divert the attention, distract the mind; put out of one's head; disconcert, discompose; put out, confuse, perplex, bewilder, moider, fluster, muddle, dazzle; throw a sop to Cerberus.

Taking

Oust; (eject); divest; levy, distrain, confiscate; sequester, sequestrate; accroach; usurp; despoil, strip, fleece, shear, displume, impoverish, eat out of house and home; drain, drain to the dregs; gut, dry, exhaust, swallow up; absorb; (suck in); draw off; suck the blood of, suck like a leech.

Crosswords: Draw Off

Expression using "draw off": To draw off. Additional references.

Bulgarian 

оттеглям се (adjourn, back, back away, disengage, draw back, draw out, fall back, fall off, give back, give way to, pull back, recede, repair, retire, retreat, retrocede, retrograde, run out, scuttle, seclude, step down, withdraw), източвам (draft, draw, run off, wiredraw). (various references)

Czech

odvolat (abolish, abrogate, annul, call, call away, call back, call off, cancel, countermand, cry off, recall, recant, renounce, repeal, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, swallow, take back, take off, undo, unsay, unswear, withdraw). (various references)

Danish

udledningspunkt fra kanal. (various references)

Dutch

opruimen (arrange, put in order, tidy), ontmantelen (withdraw), afname (abatement, acquisition, buy, decrease, demand, diminution, purchase, sale, taking, taking over, wane). (various references)

Finnish

otto (withdrawal). (various references)

French

désarmer, désameubler, déséquiper, démanteler, débit de prélèvement, se retirer (draw back, drop out). (various references)

German

losfahren (accelerate away, leave, make for, move away, move off), Entnahme (extraction, removal, taking out, withdrawal), ausrauben (Rob), abwerfen (buck off, cast off, discard, drop, jettison, parachute, parachute in, produce, release, shed, slough off, throw, throw off, unhorse, unsaddle, unseat, yield), ableiten (abstract, channel off, conduct, deduce, deflect, derivate, derive, differentiate, dissipate, divert, gather, to derivate, to dissipate, to divert, to drain, turn away), abführen (discharge, evacuate one's bowels, lead away, lead off, open, purge, take away, to lead away). (various references)

Greek 

βγάζω γάντια, ελκομένη παροχή. (various references)

Hungarian

lehúz (pull down, pull off, to chug sg, to draw down, to impress, to proof, to pull, to pull down, to strip). (various references)

Italian

spillare (broach, draw, get out, pull, tap, worm), portata di prelievo. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

上汲む (to draw off the top liquid). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

うわぐむ (to draw off the top liquid). (various references)

Manx

teaumey (bail, bail as small boat, bale, baling, decant, decantation, drain, draining, drawing off, empty, empty of liquid, pour out, pouring, pump empty, pump out, run off, tax as strength; teeming, tax; teeming, tip, tip as lorry), tayrn sheear (drawing off), tayrn jeh (pull off), tayrn er ash (draw back, pull back; revocation, retract, retractation, stand down, withdraw, withdrawal), gow jeh, cleayney (attract, bank, circumvent, decoy, deviate, dispose, distort, distortion, diversion, divert, incline, induce, influence, inveigle, list, penchant, persuasion, perversion, predilection, predispose, recede, seduce, stoop, tend, tend as garden, trend, vamp, veer). (various references)

Pig Latin

awdray offay

Portuguese

vazão retirada, abrir-se (confide, disclose, disembosom, open up, unfold). (various references)

Romanian

se retrage (adjourn, climb, crane, cry off, draw back, efface, fall back, give way, make one's bow, move back, repair in, repair to, retire, retract, retreat, shrink, shrink from, stand back, step aside, withdraw), se da înapoi (back, draw, move back, shrink), retrage trupe. (various references)

Russian 

отводить (allot, back off, estop, march off, take back, turn aside, withdraw). (various references)

Scottish

sèap (draw off privately, slink, slink away). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

povući (disaffirm, keep back, pull, recall, retire, scratch, take, take back, withdraw). (various references)

Spanish

desviar (abduce, abduct, aberrate, deflect, deviate, dissuade, divert, head off, look away, Parry, put off, switch off, turn around, turn aside, ward off), vaciar (blow, blow out, bottle, clear out, deplete, embowel, empty, hold back, hollow, pour away, pour off, run off, tap out, turn out, unpack, vacate, void), trasegar (rack), quitarse (absent onself, come out, depart, dismiss, doff, get off, go away, leave, lift, pull off, put off, raise, shed, shuffle off, skin, slip off, take away, take off, throw, throw off, unseat, wash off, wear off), apartar (abduce, alienate, allure, avert, deviate, distract, divert, divide, draw aside, draw away, fob, head off, hold off, keep apart, look away, lure away, move aside, move away, move over, push away, refract, separate, set aside, shut off, stave off, take away, throw aside, to deviate, turn aside, turn away). (various references)

Swedish

dra tillbaka (back, draw back, retract, withdraw), utlopp (issue, outfall, outflow, outgo, outlet, vent), utflöde (effluence, effluent, efflux, emanation, flow, issue, outflow, outgoing), tappa av (draw), avtappa (tap). (various references)

Turkish

saptırmak (angle, call away, color, colour, contort, deflect, demotivate, detour, deviate, distort, garble, gerrymander, lead away, reroute, strain, sway, swerve, veer, veer round, vitiate, warp, wring), geri çekmek (draw away, draw back, recall, retire, retract, withdraw), boşaltmak (bleed, clean, clean out, clear, clear out, close out, debus, deplenish, deplete, discharge, disgorge, dismantle, drain, drain away, drain off, drop off, dump, ejaculate, empty, evacuate, excrete, exhaust, let off, pour, pour from, pour out of, quit, strip, teem, tip, tip out, tip over, turn out, unlade, unload, unpack, vacate, void), çekmek (abide, absorb, arrest, attract, be a sufferer by, be a sufferer from, be cursed with smth., bear, bear with, captivate, carry, catch, charm, claw, conjugate, decline, drag, draw, draw on, draw out, dwindle, engage, engross, extract, fetch, glamor, glamour, go through, go to scale at, grind, grip, haul, heave, hitch, hoist, hold, inflect, inhale, invite, last out, lug, lump, magnetize, pass through, pique, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull away, pull over, pull up, receive, record, run up, scale in, scale out, schlep, schlepp, shoot, shrink, sip, siphon, siphon off, soak, soak in, sop up, stand the racket, stretch, suck, suffer, sustain, syphon, syphon off, take, take after, take one's medicine, throw back, toss, tow, tow away, tug, turn the scale at, undergo, up with, whisk, withdraw), çekip çıkarmak (pull out), çekilmek (abdicate, be pulled, bolt, bow, bow out, decline, desist, draw away, draw back, dry up, ebb, edge out, give over, go out, gravitate, opt out, quit, recede, repair, resign, retire, retract, scratch, secede, stand, step aside, step down, walk out, withdraw), çıkarmak (bare, belch, blank, bring out, bruit about, deduct, delete, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw out, drive out, drop, educe, eject, elicit, eliminate, emit, enact, enucleate, evolve, exclude, excogitate, excrete, exhale, exhaust, expel, expunge, extract, extricate, extrude, exude, foot, foot up, give forth, give off, haul up, hawk, issue, let out, make out, omit, order off, order out, oust, out, pay off, present, print out, provoke, publish, pull off, put off, put out, put up, reject, remove, rest, rout out, rout up, rule out, scratch, shoot out, slip off, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spit, start, stick out, strike, strike off, strike through, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take from, take off, take out, throw off, throw out, tide over, touch off, uncase, unfix, vent, void, vomit, winkle out, wipe out, wipe up, work out, wreak). (various references)

Ukrainian

відступати (back, back down, backtrack, blench, crawfish, deviate, digress, draw back, drop back, ebb, fall back, flinch, give ground, go back, recede, retreat, retrograde, shy, stand away, stand back, walk backward), знімати (bare, depose, dismantle, dismount, doff, get off, skim, take down, take off, uncover). (various references)

deriventur, detracta, detractaque, detractos, detraham, detrahas, detrahat, detrahe, detrahebant, detrahent, detrahentem, detrahentes, detrahentia, detrahentur, detrahere, detraherent, detraheret, detraheris, detrahes, detrahet, detrahetur, detrahit, detrahunt, detraxerint, detraxero, detraxerunt, detraxeruntque, detraxi, detraxisti, detraxistis, detraxit. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: afford.

-2 letters: draff, dwarf.

-3 letters: daff, doff, draw, fado, fard, faro, fora, ford, frow, orad, raff, road, waff, ward, woad, word.

-4 letters: ado, aff, arf, daw, dor, dow, fad, far, for, fro, oaf, oar, off, ora, rad, raw, rod, row, wad, war.

-5 letters: ad, ar, aw, do, fa, od, of, or, ow, wo.