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drawn en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • /dɹɔn/ (US)
  • /dɹɑn/ (cot-caught-merger)
  • /dɹɔːn/ (UK)
  • drôn
  • (US) audio

Etymology

Morphologically draw + -n.

Meanings

  1. Depleted.
  2. (of a person or person's face) Depleted. ▸ Appearing tired and unwell, as from stress; haggard.
    • The lean, drawn starvelings in their dream-stupefied state were jealous of my well filled out, prosperous form. 1924 July 14 [1923 August 14], Samuel Badisch Ornitz, “Fifth Period”, in Haunch Paunch and Jowl, eighth printing, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, section III, page 218:
  3. (of a game) Undecided; having no definite winner and loser; at a draw.
  4. (in-compounds) Pulled, towed, or extracted in the specified fashion.
    • tractor-drawn implement

Forms

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more drawn Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most drawn Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

indrawn · drawn butter · undrawn · roughdrawn · finedrawn · airdrawn · drawnness · outdrawn · hand-drawn

Relateds

draughted · drafted

Synonyms

tied · careworn · weary · weary · woeworn · drawn · haggard · careworn

Translations (1)

mi korotūangaanga (appearing tired and unwell, haggard)

drawn en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • /dɹɔn/ (US)
  • /dɹɑn/ (cot-caught-merger)
  • /dɹɔːn/ (UK)
  • drôn
  • (US) audio

Etymology

Morphologically draw + -n.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) past participle of draw
    form of draw
    • The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read. 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist: