Draw Out

Definition: Draw Out

Draw Out

Verb

1. Cause to speak, "Can you draw her out--she is always so quiet.".

2. Lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer: "We prolonged our stay"; "She extended her visit by another day"; "The meeting was drawn out until midnight".

3. Make more sociable; "The therapist drew out the shy girl".

4. Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant".

5. Draw or pull out, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense; "pull weeds"; "extract a bad tooth"; "take out a splinter"; "extract information from the telegram".

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

Synonyms: Draw Out

Diffuseness

Digress, ramble, battre la campagne, beat about the bush, perorate, spin a long yarn, protract; spin out, swell out, draw out; battologize.

Discovery

Verb: discover, find, determine, evolve, learn; fix upon; pick up; find out, trace out, make out, hunt out, fish out, worm out, ferret out, root out; fathom; bring out, draw out; educe, elicit, bring to light; dig out, grub up, fish up; unearth, disinter.

Diuturnity

Tarry; (be late); drag on, drag its slow length along, drag a lengthening chain; protract, prolong; spin out, eke out, draw out, lengthen out; temporize; gain time, make time, talk against time.

Extraction

Verb: extract, draw; take out, draw out, pull out, tear out, pluck out, pick out, get out; wring from, wrench; extort; root up, weed up, grub up, rake up, root out, weed out, grub out, rake out; eradicate; pull up by the roots, pluck up by the roots; averruncate; unroot; uproot, pull up, extirpate, dredge.

Lateness

Put off, defer, delay, lay over, suspend; table; shift off, stave off; waive, retard, remand, postpone, adjourn; procrastinate; dally; prolong, protract; spin out, draw out, lengthen out, stretch out; prorogue; keep back; tide over; push to the last, drive to the last; let the matter stand over; reserve; (store); temporize; consult one's pillow, sleep on it.

Length

Render long; Adjective: lengthen, extend, elongate; stretch; prolong, produce, protract; let out, draw out, spin out; drawl.

Manifestation

Verb: make manifest, render manifest; Adjective: bring forth, bring forward, bring to the front, bring into view; give notice; express; represent, set forth, exhibit; show, show up; expose; produce; hold up to view, expose to view; set before one, place before one, lay before one, one's eyes; tell to one's face; trot out, put through one's paces, bring to light, display, demonstrate, unroll; lay open; draw out, bring out; bring out in strong relief; call into notice, bring into notice; hold up the mirror; wear one's heart upon his sleeve; show one's face, show one's colors; manifest oneself; speak out; make no mystery, make no secret of; unfurl the flag; proclaim; (publish).

Crosswords: Draw Out

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Social education, well attended to, can always draw out of a soul, whatever it may be, the usefulness that it contains.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Needles are placed into the access to draw out the blood. (references)

Leaders who empathize, gently draw out shy members, and keep others from dominating, and who distill discussion into useful information. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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

Draw out

Expressions using "draw out": draw out water ♦ To draw out. Additional references.

Afrikaans

uithaal (collect, drive, drive out, express, gather, give, give utterance to, pick, pick up, pull, pull out, utter), ontlok (draw, drive, drive out, express, give, give utterance to, pull, pull out, utter). (various references)

Albanian

zgjatet (protrude, rise), zgjas (carry over, delay, drag out, elongate, extend, lengthen, let down, postpone, project, prolong, protract, spin out, spread, stretch), tërheq (allure, appeal, arrest, attract, bewitch, call attention to, capture, catch, charm, daggle, dangle, decoy, drag, draggle, draw, engage, entice, fetch, fix, haul, heave, invite, jerk, lure, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull out, recall, retract, revoke, stretch, take back, tow, tug, web, withdraw), i nxjerr druajtjen, e bëj tërkuzë, e bëj të flasë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مد (add to, dilate, distend, elongate, equip with, expand, extend, extension, furnish, help, lengthen, lengthening, outspread, outstretch, prolong, prolongate, prolongation, protract, protraction, provide, respite, spread, stretch, supply with), ‏جر (drag, dragging, draw, entrain, lug, pull, purchase, retrieve, sweeping, tow, traction, trail, train, trill), ‏أطال (drag out, elongate, extend, prolong, protract, spin), ‏أخرج (bring out, direct, dispossess, egress, eject, fetch, get, give off, move out, obtrude, poke, produce, push along, quit, read out, realize, remove, set, shell off, subtract, take out, vomit). (various references)

Bulgarian 

удължавам се (elongate), оттеглям се (adjourn, back, back away, disengage, draw back, draw off, fall back, fall off, give back, give way to, pull back, recede, repair, retire, retreat, retrocede, retrograde, run out, scuttle, seclude, step down, withdraw), обтягам (extend, strain, stretch), протакам (drag, protract, put over, wiredraw), изтеглям се (withdraw), изваждам (abstract, bring on, bring out, deduct, draw, drive out, eject, excerpt, extract, fetch, fish out, gouge, knock out, lay out, move out, oust, pick, pick up, pull, put out, subduct, subtract, take away, take from, take out, turn up, uncase, unpin, unship, whip out), излизам от гарата. (various references)

Chinese 

揄 (let hanging). (various references)

Czech

dloužit se (lengthen), vyjet (start), vybrat si (draw, opt), prodlužovat (protract, spin out), odeslat (despatch, dispatch, forward, remit, send, send off, transmit). (various references)

Danish

danne rodskud (to draw out suckers, to sucker). (various references)

Dutch

uithalen (drive out, empty, express, give utterance to, pull out, utter), uiten (drive out, express, give utterance to, pull out, utter), uitdrýven (chase away, drive away, drive out, expel, express, give utterance to, pull out, utter), uitbrengen (achieve, act, carry out, do, drive out, express, give utterance to, make, perform, pull out, report, utter), slaken (drive out, express, give utterance to, pull out, utter), ontlokken (drive out, express, give utterance to, pull out, utter). (various references)

Esperanto

eligi (drive out, express, give utterance to, pull out, utter). (various references)

Finnish

venyttää (expand, protract, stretch), venytellä (expand, protract, stretch). (various references)

French

sortir, répandre (drive out), prolonger, filer. (various references)

German

verschleppen (abduct, carry off, delay, go off with, protract, spread), ausziehen (discard, doff, extend, extract, move out, pull off, pull out, put off, put up, remove, set forth, set out, shed, slip off, strip, strip off, supplied, take off, take out, trace, undress, walk out), aussondern (drive out, eleminate, express, give utterance to, pick out, pull out, select, separate out, single out, to eliminate, utter, weed out), ausschließen (bar, blackball, debar, deprive, disqualify, drive out, eliminate, except, exclude, expel, express, forbid, foreclose, give utterance to, leave out, lock out, preclude, precluding, pull out, rule out, space out, suspend, to exclude, to foreclose, to space out, utter). (various references)

Greek 

μεγαλώνω (aggrandize, grow, grow in stature, grow up, magnify, raise, work up), παρατείνω (drag, extend, lengthen, prolong, protract, spin out), αποσύρω (retire, retract, withdraw). (various references)

Hebrew 

למשות (extricate, fish out, rescue), לשלוף (fish out, pull off, take off, unsheathe), ל�"וציא (abstract, eliminate, issue, rout out, take out, tap), ל�"אריך (elongate, extend, lengthen, prolong, protract, spin out, sustain), ל�"ריק (empty, pour out). (various references)

Hungarian

kiránt (pull out, to extricate, to hoick, to hoik, to pop out, to pull, to pull up, to wrench), kihúz (cross out, delete, drag out, get out, obliterate, protract, pull off, pull out, score out, scratch out, spin out, strike out, to delete, to educe, to excise, to extract, to extricate, to line through, to obliterate, to protract, to pull out, to pull up, to rive sg away, to rive sg off, to unclench, to unclinch), kiürít (deplenish, empty, evacuate, to clear out, to defecate, to deflate, to drain, to drink up, to empty, to evacuate, to quit, to tip out, to vacate, vacate). (various references)

Italian

pescare (fish, fish for, get hold of, root out). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

抜く (to, to draw out, to extract, to omit, to surpass). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひき� す (to draw out, to pull out, to take out, to withdraw), ぬきとる (to draw out, to pull out), ぬく (to draw out, to extract, to omit, to surpass, to unplug). (various references)

Manx

tayrn magh (drag out, elicit, evoke, extract, extraction, pluck out, pull out, rip out, withdraw, withdraw as money, withdrawal). (various references)

Pig Latin

awdray outay

Polish

wydobyć. (various references)

Portuguese

desacanhar, sair (back off, depart, exit, flit, get off, get out, go out, issue, leave, move away, move out, pull out, take off, to come out, to get out, to go out, tumble), sacar (call in, draw, haul, make a draft, pull, whip, wrest), esticar (hold out, screw, spread, strain, strech, stretch, string, tauten, tighten). (various references)

Romanian

dura mult, desena (design, draw, figure, pencil, picture, profile, sketch, trace), smulge (carry away, elicit, extirpate, extort, pick off, pull, pull up, rend away, rend off, Rive, snatch, squeeze, tear out, uproot, worm out of, wrest, wring, yank), scoate la luminã (bring to light, let daylight into), scoate (abstract, banish, bring out, brood, chase away, concoct, deduce, delete, deliver, dig, discharge, dismiss, drive away, edit, elicit, emit, exhaust, expel, extort, extract, extrude, fabricate, get on, give out, gouge, gut, hatch, heave, issue, let out, obtain, produce, publish, pull off, pull out, put off, put out, quarry, realize, remove, sap, save, scoop, strike out, strip, take off, take out, utter), lungi (dilate, dilute, eke out, extend, lengthen, let down, protract, spin out, stretch), ieşi (appear, be gone, become, come out, erupt, escape, exhaust, exit, fade, get out, go out, issue, result, run, spring, start, start out, step out), face sã mãrturiseascã, face sã avanseze, creşte (accrue, advance, augment, be up, breed, bring, bring up, crop, cultivate, develop, educate, go up, grow, grow rife, heighten, increase, intensify, keep, make, Mount, multiply, nurse, nurture, produce, propagate, raise, rear, rise, school, spring, spurt, straggle, train, wax). (various references)

Russian 

удлиняться (lengthen), удлинять (elongate, elongated, lengthen, lengthened, lengthening), растягивать (distend, elongate, protract, spin out, strain, stretch), тянуться (drag on, extend, reach out, stretch), вытягивать (elicit, exhaust, extend, stretch), выманивать (defraud). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

podići novac iz banke, izvući (abstract, bring out, come up, derive, extract, get out, tug, wangle). (various references)

Spanish

tirar (burn, cast, discard, dispose of, drag, draw, fire, haul, heave, kiss off, knock off, lay, pitch, print, pull, shoot, tell off, throw, throw about, throw aside, throw away, throw out, to throw, toss away, toss over, tug, turn out), sonsacar (elicit, pump, steal, tease out, wheedle), salir de la estación (pull out), sacar (bring out, bring up, draw, educe, elicit, extract, fetch, get, let, produce, protract, put out, screw, take, take out, throw in, throw out), retirar dinero (draw on, draw upon), redactar (draw up, edit, make out, make up, phrase, put, redact, word, write), ponerse en marcha (get going, launch out, sally forth, sally out, start), hacerse más largos, hacer menos reservado (bring out), hacer hablar (call upon), estirar (crane, draw, extend, iron lightly, move out, overstretch, prick up, pull out, run the iron over, smooth back, spin out, strain, stretch, tauten, tense, tighten, tighten up, twang, undress, wrench), arrancar (abstract, blow away, draw, extort, extract, grub up, pick, pluck, pluck off, prise off, prize off, pull, pull away, pull off, pull out, pull up, put on, rip off, rip out, root up, start, start running, switch on, take away, tear, tear away, tear down, tear off, tear out, tear up, turn on, weed, win, wrest, wring), alargar (accord, convey, drop, dwell on, elongate, extend, give, hand, hand over, hold out, lengthen, let down, pass, protract, put forth, put out, reach, spend, spin out, strech out, throw out, touch). (various references)

Swedish

dra ut (bring out, drag out, educe, elongate, extract, pull out), dra ur (unplug), dra fram (draw forth), yttra sig (express an opinion, manifest, observe), tänja ut, ta ut (draw, draw on, pick out, take out, tell off), bli längre (lengthen), avgå (be deducted, be sent off, depart, evaporate, go, leave, resign, retire, sail, start). (various references)

Turkish

yerleştirmek (accommodate, deposit, domicil, domicile, embed, emplace, enchase, engraft, ensconce, entrench, establish, fix, indwell, ingraft, inject, install, lay, locate, nestle, perch, pitch, place, posit, position, post, put, put in, quarter, reset, seat, set, set up, settle, shake down, sink, site, situate, slot, spot, Square, station, Stow), uzatmak (augment, belabor, belabour, continue, drag out, eke out, elongate, enlarge, extend, grow, hand, hold out, hold over, lengthen, outstretch, pad out, pass, prolong, protract, pull out, rack, reach, renew, repose on, sidestep, span, spin out, sprawl out, spread, stand over, stick, stick out, stretch, stretch out, turn to, wiredraw), uzamak (augment, continue, elongate, extend, grow longer, hold over, lengthen, linger, pull out, scat, stretch, sweep), taslağını çizmek (adumbrate, delineate, draft, draught, draw, outline, rough in, rough out, roughcast, sketch), söyletmek, konuşturmak (draw smb. into talk, get talking, induce to speak), istasyondan çıkmak, görevlendirmek (commission, deploy, draft, draught, elect, employ, entrust, give work, instruct, place, post, set on, station), ana hatlarıyla çıkarmak, 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 off, draw on, 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), çıkarmak (bare, belch, blank, bring out, bruit about, deduct, delete, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw off, 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)

Turkmen 

uzaklaюdyrmak (postpone, put off). (various references)

Ukrainian

витягувати (abstract, crane, extract, outstretch, pull, put out, snake), подовжувати (carry, lengthen). (various references)

continuo, educo, exhaurient, exhauriet, extrusus, producere. (various references)

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

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: outdraw, outward.

-1 letter: outwar, toward.

-2 letters: doura, tardo.

-3 letters: auto, dart, dato, daut, dawt, doat, dour, drat, draw, dura, duro, orad, rato, road, rota, rout, taro, toad, tora, tour, trad, trod, trow, turd, ward, wart, waur, woad, word, wort.

-4 letters: ado, art, daw, dor, dot, dow, duo, oar, oat, ora, ort, oud, our, out, rad, rat, raw.

+1 letter: outdrawn, outdraws, outwards, untoward.

+2 letters: outwardly, outwarred, southward.

+3 letters: outbrawled, outcrawled, outdrawing, outwearied, southwards, untowardly.

+4 letters: equatorward, groundwater, handwrought, outwardness.

+5 letters: groundwaters, untowardness.