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English
Etymology
Morphologically draw + -n.
Pronunciation
Verb
drawn
- past participle of draw
2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, […] . Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
Adjective
drawn (comparative more drawn, superlative most drawn)
- Depleted.
- Hyponym: overdrawn
- (of a person) Appearing tired and unwell, as from stress; haggard.
- (of a game) undecided; having no definite winner and loser; at a draw.
- Synonym: tied
- Hyponym: stalemated
- (in combination) Pulled, towed, or extracted in the specified fashion.
- Hyponym: horse-drawn
tractor-drawn implement
Derived terms
Translations
appearing tired and unwell, haggard
Anagrams
Welsh
Pronunciation
Verb
drawn
- Soft mutation of trawn.
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.