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drawn

(drôn)

Past participle of draw.

adj.

Haggard, as from fatigue or ill health: a wan, drawn face.

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drawn

(drɔːn)

adj

haggard, tired, or tense in appearance

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drawn

(drɔn)

v.

1. pp. of draw.

adj.

2. tense; haggard.

3. eviscerated, as a fowl.

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Adj.	1.	drawn - showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens careworn, haggard, raddled, worn tired - depleted of strength or energy; "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat"
	2.	drawn - having the curtains or draperies closed or pulled shut; "the drawn draperies kept direct sunlight from fading the rug" closed - not open or affording passage or access; "the many closed streets made travel difficult"; "our neighbors peeped from behind closed curtains"

drawn

adjective tense, worn, strained, stressed, tired, pinched, fatigued, harassed, fraught, sapped, harrowed, haggard She looked drawn and tired.

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drawn

adjective

1. Physically haggard:

cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, shrunken, skeletal, wasted.

Idiom: skin and bones.

2. Pale and exhausted, as because of worry or sleeplessness:

careworn, gaunt, haggard, hollow-eyed, wan, worn.

Translations

شاحِب ومُرهَقمُتَعادِلَهمَسْحوبمَسْحوب، مُسْتَل

nerozhodnýtasenývyčerpanýzatažený

fortrukketuafgjort

gezogen unentschieden verzerrt

demacrado desenvainado empatado ojeroso sacado

dessiné hagard nul

eldöntetlenkihúzottmegnyúltösszehúzott

brugîiîdreginn fyrirherptur, gretturjafntefli

dradd trukket trukket for uavgjort

tasenýzatiahnutý

beraberebitkinçekiliçekilmişsolgun

平局的拉在一起的拔出鞘的疲倦的

drawn

[drɔːn]

A. PP of draw

B. ADJ

1. (= haggard) (with tiredness) → demacrado, ojeroso; (with pain) → macilento

2. (= with no winner) [game] → empatado

3. (= prolonged) long drawn out → larguísimo, prolongado

4. (= unsheathed) with drawn sword → con la espada en la mano

C. CPD drawn butter N (US) → mantequilla f derretida

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

drawn

[ˈdrɔːn]

pp of draw

adj (= haggard) → tiré(e), crispé(e)drawn-out [ˌdrɔːnˈaʊt] adj (= protracted) [process] → qui traîne en longueur
long drawn-out [process, inquiry] → long(longue); [war, conflict] → prolongé(e)
to be long and drawn-out → être très long(longue)

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drawn

ptp of draw¹, of draw²

adj

curtains → zugezogen; blinds → heruntergezogen

(= haggard, from tiredness) → abgespannt; (from worry) → abgehärmt

game, match → unentschieden

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

drawn

[drɔːn]

1. pp of draw

2. adj (haggard, with tiredness) → tirato/a; (000, with pain) → contratto/a (dal dolore)

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draw

(droː) – past tense drew (druː) : past participle drawn – verb

1. to make a picture or pictures (of), usually with a pencil, crayons etc. During his stay in hospital he drew a great deal; Shall I draw a cow?

2. to pull along, out or towards oneself. She drew the child towards her; He drew a gun suddenly and fired; All water had to be drawn from a well; The cart was drawn by a pony.

3. to move (towards or away from someone or something). The car drew away from the kerb; Christmas is drawing closer.

4. to play (a game) in which neither side wins. The match was drawn / We drew at 1–1.

5. to obtain (money) from a fund, bank etc. to draw a pension / an allowance.

6. to open or close (curtains).

7. to attract. She was trying to draw my attention to something.

noun

1. a drawn game. The match ended in a draw.

2. an attraction. The acrobats' act should be a real draw.

3. the selecting of winning tickets in a raffle, lottery etc. a prize draw.

4. an act of drawing, especially a gun. He's quick on the draw.

ˈdrawing noun

(the art of making) a picture made with a pencil, crayon etc. the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci; I am no good at drawing.

drawn adjective

1. (of curtains) pulled together or closed. The curtains were drawn, although it was still daylight.

2. (of a game etc) neither won nor lost. a drawn match.

3. (of a blade etc) pulled out of its sheath. a drawn sword.

4. (of a person) strained and tired. His face was pale and drawn.

ˈdrawback noun

a disadvantage. There are several drawbacks to his plan.

ˈdrawbridge noun

a bridge (at the entrance to a castle) which can be pulled up or let down.

ˈdrawing-pin noun

(American ˈthumbtack) a pin with a broad, flat head used for fastening paper to a board etc.

ˈdrawstring noun

a cord threaded through the top of a bag etc for closing it.

draw a blank

to be unsuccessful in a search, inquiry etc.

draw a conclusion from

to come to a conclusion after thinking about (what one has learned). Don't draw any hasty conclusions from what I've said!

draw in

(of a car etc) to come to a halt at the side of the road.

draw the line

to fix a limit especially for what one is prepared to do.

draw/cast lots

to decide who is to do etc something by drawing names out of a box etc. Five of us drew lots for the two pop-concert tickets.

draw off

to pour out (liquid) from a large container. The barman drew off a pint of beer.

draw on

to use (money, strength, memory etc) as a source. I'll have to draw on my savings.

draw on

1. to pull on. He drew on his gloves.

2. to come nearer. Night drew on.

draw out

1. to take (money) from a bank. I drew out $40 yesterday.

2. to make longer. We drew out the journey as much as we could but we still arrived early.

3. (of a car etc) to move into the middle of the road from the side.

draw up

1. (of a car etc) to stop. We drew up outside their house.

2. to arrange in an acceptable form or order. They drew up the soldiers in line; The solicitor drew up a contract for them to sign.

3. to move closer. Draw up a chair!

4. to extend (oneself) into an upright position. He drew himself up to his full height.

long drawn out

going on for a long time. The meeting was long drawn out; a long-drawn-out meeting/scream.

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The reaction from the state of fear he had been in had overcome Spider quite as effectually as though he had drawn the fated piece.

The Russian had already drawn a pocketknife from his trousers, and was weakly attempting to open it.

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How completely it meant, `why should my picture be drawn?'"

She was so eager to have them drawn that I could not refuse; but there is no making children of three or four years old stand still you know; nor can it be very easy to take any likeness of them, beyond the air and complexion, unless they are coarser featured than any of mama's children ever were.

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And this time not even she dared look at what he had drawn. She knew her limit of control.

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Do you wish me to tell you it is well drawn? It isn't.

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A Chief may, and often does, play almost an entire game without leaving his own square, where, mounted upon a thoat, he may overlook the entire field and direct each move, nor may he be reproached for lack of courage should he elect thus to play the game since, by the rules, were he to be slain or so badly wounded as to be compelled to withdraw, a game that might otherwise have been won by the science of his play and the prowess of his men would be drawn. To invite personal combat, therefore, denotes confidence in his own swordsmanship, and great courage, two attributes that were calculated to fill the Black players with hope and valor when evinced by their Chief thus early in the game.

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During the halt Tess's eyes fell upon a three-pint blue mug, which was ascending and descending through the air to and from the feminine section of a household, sitting on the summit of a load that had also drawn up at a little distance from the same inn.

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We had drawn some fifty yards ahead of Hooja--there had been times when we were scarce ten yards in advance-and were feeling considerably safer from capture.

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Come, Leybourn!" and the King left the apartment followed by his gentlemen, all of whom had drawn away from the Earl of Leicester when it became apparent that the royal displeasure was strong against him.

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Indeed the moon, liquid and pliable in the first days of its formation, was originally a perfect sphere; but being soon drawn within the attraction of the earth, it became elongated under the influence of gravitation.

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The young delinquents watched their master, through the lookout holes, march slowly down the school straight upon their retreat, while all the boys in the neighbourhood, of course, stopped their work to look on; and not only were they ignominiously drawn out, and caned over the hand then and there, but their characters for steadiness were gone from that time.