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draw out

 
Verb draw out has 5 senses
  1. draw out - cause to speak, "Can you draw her out--she is always so quiet"
    --1 is one way to
    reach out
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
  2. prolong, protract, extend, draw out - 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"
    --2 is one way to lengthen
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  3. draw out - make more sociable; "The therapist drew out the shy girl"
    --3 is one way to
    encourage
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
  4. educe, evoke, elicit, extract, draw out - deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"
    --4 is one way to interpret, construe, see
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  5. extract, pull out, pull, pull up, take out, draw out - draw or pull out, 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"
    --5 is one way to remove, take, take away, withdraw
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
    Somebody ----s something PP
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