Verb draw out has 5 senses
- draw out - cause to speak, "Can you draw her out--she is always so quiet"
--1 is one way to reach out
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- prolong, protract, extend, draw out - lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer; "We prolonged our stay"; "She extended her visit by another day"; "The meeting was drawn out until midnight"
--2 is one way to lengthen
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- draw out - make more sociable; "The therapist drew out the shy girl"
--3 is one way to encourage
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- educe, evoke, elicit, extract, draw out - deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"
--4 is one way to interpret, construe, see
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- extract, pull out, pull, pull up, take out, draw out - draw or pull out, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense; "pull weeds"; "extract a bad tooth"; "take out a splinter"; "extract information from the telegram"
--5 is one way to remove, take, take away, withdraw
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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