draw out

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verb

1. cause to speak, "Can you draw her out--she is always so quiet" (Freq. 1)
• Hypernyms:
reach out
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
2. lengthen in time;
cause to be or last longer (Freq. 1)
- We prolonged our stay
- She extended her visit by another day
- The meeting was drawn out until midnight
• Syn:
prolong, protract, extend
• Derivationally related forms:
extendible (for: extend), protraction (for: protract), prolongation (for: prolong)
• Hypernyms:
lengthen
• Hyponyms:
extend, temporize, temporise, spin, spin out
• Verb Group:
carry, extend
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
3. make more sociable
- The therapist drew out the shy girl
• Hypernyms:
encourage
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
4. deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
- We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant
• Syn:
educe, evoke, elicit, extract
• Hypernyms:
interpret, construe, see
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
5. remove as if by suction
- aspirate the wound
• Syn:
aspirate, suck out
• Hypernyms:
remove, take, take away, withdraw
• Verb Group:
suck in, draw in
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
6. remove, 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
• Syn:
extract, pull out, pull, pull up, take out
• Derivationally related forms:
extractible (for: extract), extraction (for: extract), extractor (for: extract)
• Hypernyms:
remove, take, take away, withdraw
• Hyponyms:
wring out, squeeze out, demodulate, thread
• Verb Group:
draw, pull, pull out, get out, take out
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- Somebody ----s something PP