Dictionary

draw up en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. (transitive) To compose (a document), especially following a standard form; prepare a plan.
   • Plans were drawn up and things looked promising for a physical connection to be made during a line possession in October 2019. 2021 November 17, Mark Rand, “Reconnecting rail freight to S&C quarries”, in RAIL, number 944, page 55:
   • Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well. 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
   • I asked my lawyer to draw up a new will.
2. (transitive) To arrange in order or formation.
   • Sergeant, please draw the men up in ranks of three.
3. (transitive) To cause to come to a halt.
   • Draw up the carriage just around the corner!
4. (intransitive) To come to a halt.
   • The tide was out, and we drew up amid the strong bracing smell of seaweed, with gulls screeching, wheeling around, and gliding on the wind. 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8:
   • As the cab drew up before the address indicated, the fog lifted a little and showed him a dingy street, a gin palace, a low French eating house, a shop for the retail of penny numbers and twopenny salads, many ragged children huddled in the doorways, and many women of many different nationalities passing out, key in hand, to have a morning glass; […] 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Carew Murder Case”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, pages 40–41:
   • Melton Mowbray station, ½ mile east of the junction, is an unimposing and cramped structure with up and down platforms only and express trains which call there have to draw up twice because of the short platform lengths. 1959 June, J. F. Oxley, D. R. Smith, “The Nottingham-Kettering line of the L.M.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 320:
   • The tractor drew up alongside the haystack.
5. To withdraw upwards.
   • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII Ere long a bell tinkled, and the curtain drew up. Within the arch, the bulky figure of Sir George Lynn, whom Mr. Rochester had likewise chosen, was seen enveloped in a white sheet.

Forms

Synonyms

formate (to arrange in order or formation) · freeze (to cause to come to a halt) · brake (to come to a halt) · halt · desist · make out (to compose a document) · retract (to withdraw upwards)

Translations (48)

bg задържа се (to come to a halt) · bg изготвям (to compose a document) · bg спра (to cause to come to a halt) · bg строя (to arrange in order or formation) · cmn 使停住 (to cause to come to a halt) · bg спирам се (to come to a halt) · bg изготвя (to compose a document) · cmn 編隊 /编队 (to arrange in order or formation) · it redigere (to compose a document) · bg спра се (to come to a halt) · bg задържам се (to come to a halt) · no stille opp (to arrange in order or formation) · ja 練る (to arrange in order or formation) · bg разписвам (to compose a document) · de aufstellen (to arrange in order or formation) · io redaktar (to compose a document) · bg разпиша (to compose a document) · it mettere (to arrange in order or formation) · bg спирам (to come to a halt) · bg задържам (to cause to come to a halt) · cmn 制訂 /制订 (to compose a document) · tr sıraya dizmek (to arrange in order or formation) · it compilare (to compose a document) · bg задържа (to cause to come to a halt) · cmn 停住 (to come to a halt) · cmn 草擬 /草拟 (to compose a document) · ru начерти́ть (to compose a document) · sv utarbeta (to compose a document) · de abstellen (to cause to come to a halt) · bg спра (to come to a halt) · cmn 起草 (to compose a document) · cmn 整隊 /整队 (to arrange in order or formation) · de aufsetzen (to compose a document) · bg спирам (to cause to come to a halt) · it stilare (to compose a document) · grc τάσσω (to arrange in order or formation) · de anhalten (to come to a halt) · it stendere (to compose a document) · cmn 排列 (to arrange in order or formation) · fi pysähtyä (to come to a halt) · bg строявам (to arrange in order or formation) · ru черти́ть (to compose a document) · fi pysäyttää (to cause to come to a halt) · pl sporządzić (to compose a document) · pt lavrar (to compose a document) · fi koota (to arrange in order or formation) · no sette opp (to compose a document) · fi laatia (to compose a document)