draw
Pronunciation: /dɹɑ/
The English word “draw” has 20 meanings listed here.
verb
- To pull (someone or something) in a particular direction or manner.
- To move (a body part) in a particular direction.
- Often followed by tight: to pull (something, such as a belt or string) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely.
- To drag (something), especially along the ground.
- To pull (blinds, a curtain, etc.) open or closed.
- To pull out (a bolt or latch) to unlock a door, gate, etc.; also, to push in (a bolt or latch) to lock a door, gate, etc.
- Chiefly followed by aside or to one side: to move (someone) away from a group of people in order to speak to them privately.
- To assume a specific attitude or position, either by pulling in or stretching out one's body or limbs.
- To cause (a body part) to contract or shrink; also, to pull (the mouth, the face or features, etc.) out of shape from emotion, etc.; to distort.
- To cause (someone or something) to go from one place to another, or from one condition to another.
- To construct (a canal, wall, etc.) from one point to another.
- To strike (the cue ball) below the centre so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to move backwards on striking another ball.
- To cause (a bowl) to move in a curve to a certain place.
- Of a batter: to hit (a ball) from the off side to the leg side, especially with an inclined bat; also, to hit (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.
- To play (a shot or a stone) that lands in the house (“circular target”).
- To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left (or, for a left-handed player, toward the right, originally in an uncontrolled and now a controlled manner.
- Of a vessel: to require (a certain depth of water) to float in.
- To drag (someone) by tying behind a horse or on a frame as a form of punishment or torture, or to bring to a place of execution.
- To kill someone as a form of punishment or torture by tearing apart (their body) by tying their limbs to horses which run in different directions; also, to tear (the limbs) from someone's body in this manner.
- To pull back (an arrow or bowstring) in preparation for shooting the arrow; also, to cause (a bow) to bend by pulling back the bowstring.
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