DRAW

DRAW 4 letter word which starts with the letter D and ends with the letter W

We have found 36 definitions.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To pull from a sheath as a sword.

(v. t.) To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive.

(v. t.) To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To select by the drawing of lots.

(v. t.) To remove the contents of

(v. t.) To drain by emptying; to suck dry.

(v. t.) To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; as to draw a fowl; to hang draw and quarter a criminal.

(v. t.) To take into the lungs; to inhale; to inspire; hence also to utter or produce by an inhalation; to heave.

(v. t.) To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch; to extend as a mass of metal into wire.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To write in due form; to prepare a draught of; as to draw a memorial a deed or bill of exchange.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To withdraw.

(v. t.) To trace by scent; to track; -- a hunting term.

(v. i.) 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.

(v. i.) To draw a liquid from some receptacle as water from a well.

(v. i.) To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or enticement.

(v. i.) To have efficiency as an epispastic; to act as a sinapism; -- said of a blister poultice etc.

(v. i.) To have draught as a chimney flue or the like; to furnish transmission to smoke gases etc.

(v. i.) To unsheathe a weapon especially a sword.

(v. i.) To perform the act or practice the art of delineation; to sketch; to form figures or pictures.

(v. i.) To become contracted; to shrink.

(v. i.) 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.

(v. i.) To make a draft or written demand for payment of money deposited or due; -- usually with on or upon.

(v. i.) To admit the action of pulling or dragging; to undergo draught; as a carriage draws easily.

(v. i.) To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.

(n.) The act of drawing; draught.

(n.) A lot or chance to be drawn.

(n.) A drawn game or battle etc.

(n.) 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.

Syllable Information

The word DRAW is a 4 letter word that contains 1 syllable .

The syllable division for the word DRAW is DRAW

Other words from DRAW

Below you will find all the words that can be formed from the letters of the word DRAW.