draw

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A huge crowd surrounded us, and after the draw was agreed I could hear shouts of "draw" at the back of the hall.

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  1. transitive verb To cause to move after or toward one by applying continuous force; drag: drew the chair closer to the table; a team of horses drawing a wagon. See Synonyms at pull.
  2. transitive verb To cause to move in a given direction or to a given position, as by leading: The teacher drew the children into the room to see the decorations.
  3. transitive verb To move or pull so as to cover or uncover something: draw the curtains.
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  • "To get a draw was a good result tonight," he said. —  ESPNsoccernet
  • When Obama fills a stadium with tens of thousands of admirers, you can be sure that part of the draw is the audience's sense of being part of something new and extraordinary. —  UnionLeader.com -- RSS feeds -- New Hampshire news, business and sports
  • Bent, who opened the scoring in the 2-2 draw, recognised a draw was a creditable result against the Premier League champions. —  ESPNsoccernet
  • Argentina went into the game knowing that a draw was the minimum requirement and for once, in the highest-pressure game of all their high-pressure qualifiers, they looked controlled and assured in the early stages at the Estadio Centenario. —  Soccer Blogs - latest posts
  • Hodgson said he thought a draw was a fair result but had issues with the set-piece that led to City's opening goal after the referee over-ruled the linesman to award a corner. —  Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie
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draw:   drew ·  drawing ·  drawn ·  draws
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English drauen, from Old English dragan.

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  1. from Middle English drawen, draʒhen, draʒen, drahen (preterit drew, drewe, drowe, drowgh, drough, droʒ, droh, past participle drawen, drawe, draʒen), from Anglo-Saxon dragan (preterit drōg, drōh, plural drōgon, past participle dragen), transitive draw, drag, intransitive go, = Old Saxon dragan = OFries. drega, draga = Dutch dragen, carry, = Middle Low German Low German dragen = Old High German tragan, Middle High German G. tragen, carry, bear, = Icelandic draga = Swedish draga = Danish drage, draw, pull, drag, = Goth, dragan, draw. Not cognate with L. trahere, draw, whence English trace, tract, etc. Hence ult. drag, draggle, drawl, drain, draught = draft, dray, dredge, and prob. dregs. Cf. indraw, outdraw, withdraw.
  2. from draw, v.
  3. A modern freq. form of draw (as draggle, freq. of drag); cf. Dutch dralen = Old Danish dravle = Icelandic dralla, loiter, linger, similarly from cognates of English draw.
 

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