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updraw en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English updrawen, updrauen, equivalent to up- + draw. Compare Dutch opdragen, German auftragen, Swedish uppdraga.

Meanings

  1. An act of drawing up; an upward draw, pull, or attraction
    • The porch mood is the condition from which there is an updraw or a downdraw. 2011, Frederic Will, Time, Accounts, Surplus Meaning: Settings of the Theophanic:
    • Wow, you're quick on the updraw! 2013, Douglas Hofstadter, Emmanuel Sander, Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking:
    • The main risk of this area is the overabstraction of the limited shallow freshwater reserves that will result in the updraw and infiltration of saltwater as well as the salinization, sodification, and alcalinization of soils by excessive irrigation as described above […]. 2016, Karen Sudmeier-Rieux, Manuela Fernández, Ivanna Penna, Identifying Emerging Issues in Disaster Risk Reduction, Migration, Climate Change and Sustainable Development:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
updraws Number=Plur lexicographic

updraw en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English updrawen, updrauen, equivalent to up- + draw. Compare Dutch opdragen, German auftragen, Swedish uppdraga.

Meanings

  1. (rare, transitive) To draw up
    • Forthwith the huge portcullis high updrew 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
updrawn Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
updrew Tense=Past lexicographic
updrawing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
updraws Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic