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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of undraw.

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Examples

  • Rouncewell lifts him into easier positions through the long remainder of the blank wintry night, and equally familiar with his unexpressed wish, extinguishes the light and undraws the curtains at the first late break of day.

    Bleak House 2007

  • And is not that a Mother's gentle hand that undraws your curtains, and a Mother's sweet voice that summons you to rise?

    Alice's Adventures Under Ground Being a facsimile of the original Ms. book afterwards developed into "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" Lewis Carroll 1865

  • Very familiar to him, as he said himself some hours ago, George Rouncewell lifts him into easier positions through the long remainder of the blank wintry night, and equally familiar with his unexpressed wish, extinguishes the light and undraws the curtains at the first late break of day.

    Bleak House Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1853

  • Rouncewell lifts him into easier positions through the long remainder of the blank wintry night, and equally familiar with his unexpressed wish, extinguishes the light and undraws the curtains at the first late break of day.

    Bleak House Charles Dickens 1841

  • As soon as he knows the head to be in its place, he undraws the slide.

    The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2 (of 3), 1857-1870 Charles Dickens 1841

  • [PAULINA undraws a curtain, and discovers HERMIONE, standing as a statue.]

    The Winter's Tale William Shakespeare 1590

  • Against black shadows on pavement, a short diagonal shaft of hot sunlight draws and undraws itself on the right hand side of the frame, presumably as an unseen door opens and closes.

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • Against black shadows on pavement, a short diagonal shaft of hot sunlight draws and undraws itself on the right hand side of the frame, presumably as an unseen door opens and closes.

    GreenCine Daily 2009

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