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Definition of draw : 1. A drawn battle, game, or the like.
2. A drawn game or battle, etc.
3. A lot or chance to be drawn.
4. That part of a bridge which may be raised, swung round, or drawn aside; the movable part of a drawbridge. See the Note under Drawbridge.
5. That which is drawn or is subject to drawing.
6. The act of drawing; draught.
7. The result of drawing, or state of being drawn;
8. The spin or twist imparted to a ball, or the like, by a drawing stroke.
9. To admit the action of pulling or dragging; to undergo draught; as, a carriage draws easily.
10. To become contracted; to shrink.
11. To cause to come out for one's use or benefit; to extract; to educe; to bring forth; as: ( a) To bring or take out, or to let out, from some receptacle, as a stick or post from a hole, water from a cask or well, etc.
12. To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.
13. To drain by emptying; to suck dry.
14. To draw a liquid from some receptacle, as water from a well.
15. To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or enticement.
16. To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch; to extend, as a mass of metal into wire.
17. To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; as, to draw a fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal.
18. To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive.
19. To have draught, as a chimney, flue, or the like; to furnish transmission to smoke, gases, etc.
20. To have efficiency as an epispastic; to act as a sinapism; - said of a blister, poultice, etc.
21. To hit ( the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
22. To influence to move or tend toward one's self; to exercise an attracting force upon; to call towards itself; to attract; hence, to entice; to allure; to induce.
23. To leave ( a contest) undecided; as, the battle or game was drawn.
24. To make a draft or written demand for payment of money deposited or due; - usually with on or upon.
25. To move; to come or go; literally, to draw one's self; -- with prepositions and adverbs; as, to draw away, to move off, esp. in racing, to get in front; to obtain the lead or increase it; to draw back, to retreat; to draw level, to move up even ( with another); to come up to or overtake another; to draw off, to retire or retreat; to draw on, to advance; to draw up, to form in array; to draw near, nigh, or towards, to approach; to draw together, to come together, to collect.
26. To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive.
27. To perform the act, or practice the art, of delineation; to sketch; to form figures or pictures.
28. To play ( a short- length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
29. To pull from a sheath, as a sword.
30. To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling; as, a horse draws well; the sails of a ship draw well.
31. To remove the contents of
32. To represent by lines drawn; to form a sketch or a picture of; to represent by a picture; to delineate; hence, to represent by words; to depict; to describe.
33. To require ( so great a depth, as of water) for floating; - said of a vessel; to sink so deep in ( water); as, a ship draws ten feet of water.
34. To run, extend, or produce, as a line on any surface; hence, also, to form by marking; to make by an instrument of delineation; to produce, as a sketch, figure, or picture.
35. To select by the drawing of lots.
36. To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.
37. To strike ( the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
38. To take from a box or wheel, as a lottery ticket; to receive from a lottery by the drawing out of the numbers for prizes or blanks; hence, to obtain by good fortune; to win; to gain; as, he drew a prize.
39. To take into the lungs; to inhale; to inspire; hence, also, to utter or produce by an inhalation; to heave.
40. To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, or the like; as, to draw money from a bank.
41. To throw up ( the stone) gently.
42. To trace by scent; to track; - a hunting term.
43. To unsheathe a weapon, especially a sword.
44. To withdraw.
45. To write in due form; to prepare a draught of; as, to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange.

Synonyms:

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carry, transfer, adduce, conduct, convey, bear, transport, bring, induce, fetch, impart, attract

plan, profile, circumscribe, delineate, frame, contour, outline, form, draft, silhouette, figure, sketch, trace, represent

doodle, paint, render, illustrate, depict

excavate, extract, eradicate, amputate, extricate, withdraw, remove

jerk, haul, tow, tug, yank, grab

invite, engross, magnetize, seduce, enchant, entice, drag, captivate

appeal, allure, enticement, attractiveness, gravitation, fascination, temptation, lure, allurement, attraction, magnetism, traction, affinity, charm, pull

standoff, tie

Usage examples:

• Lucy did not draw hers away; she looked up at him with a smile. - "A Prairie Courtship", Harold Bindloss.
• If the weather be dry, they need not be moved until time to draw them in. - "Soil Culture", J. H. Walden.
• I draw the line at their women. - "The Burning Spear", John Galsworthy.