Drawn Meaning
/dɹɔːn/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbpast participle of draw
adjDepleted.
Sentence Examples
Insofar as possible, our examples will be drawn from English.
The picture has been drawn well as yet.
The government has drawn up guidelines for schools during the pandemic.
CEFR Practice Quiz
After hours of work, her face looked tired and ____ with worry.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Insofar as possible, our examples will be ____ from English.
Word Origin & History
Morphologically draw + -n.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
"The lean, drawn starvelings in their dream-stupefied state were jealous of my well filled out, prosperous form."
— 1924 July 26 [1923 August 26], Samuel Badisch Ornitz, “Fifth Period”, in Haunch Paunch and Jowl, eighth printing, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, section III, page 218:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
After hours of work, her face looked tired and ____ with worry.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Insofar as possible, our examples will be ____ from English.