draw out
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.80 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To physically extract, as blood from a vein.
verb
To cause (a shy person) to be more open or talkative.
verb
To redraw an electoral district in order to make it unlikely a particular candidate or party will win it.
verb
To improve a losing hand to a winning hand by receiving additional cards.
Example Sentences
- "It seems the boss tries to draw out these meetings for as long as possible just to punish us."
- "Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill."
- "They used raw meat to draw the beast out of the cave."
- "She's really a neat person if you just take the time to draw her out."
- "Jill had a flush on the turn, but Jimmy drew out by completing a full house on the river."
- "That the Scots Army drew out upon a March, and the English Army drew out to attend them, but could not engage them, by reason of a Bog and great Ditch between the two Armies, only they discharged their great Guns at one another, […]"