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Definition of 'draw out' Verb
- cause to speak, "Can you draw her out--she is always so quiet"
- lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer; "We prolonged our stay"; "She extended her visit by another day"; "The meeting was drawn out until midnight"
Synonyms: prolong protract extend - make more sociable; "The therapist drew out the shy girl"
- deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"
Synonyms: educe evoke elicit extract - remove as if by suction; "aspirate the wound"
Synonyms: aspirate suck out - 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"
Synonyms: extract pull out pull pull up take out
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