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Verb
draw blank (third-person singular simple present draws blank, present participle drawing blank, simple past drew blank, past participle drawn blank)
- (transitive, now rare) To search (something) without finding what one was looking for.
1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 24:‘Last time we were here we drew the whole place blank, and old D. cursed the keeper's head off and accused him of poisoning the foxes, so I suppose he did it to get a bit of his own back!’
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