draw blank en · VERB
Meanings
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(archaic, transitive) To search (something) without finding what one was looking for.
‘Last time we were here we drew the whole place blank, and old D. cursed the keeper's head off and accused him of poisoning the foxes, so I suppose he did it to get a bit of his own back!’
1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 24:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| drawn blank | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| drew blank | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| draws blank | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| drawing blank | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |