Drawn
//dɹɔn// adj, verb
adj, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 past participle of draw form-of, participle, past
"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
- 1 Depleted.
- 2 Depleted.; Appearing tired and unwell, as from stress; haggard.
- 3 undecided; having no definite winner and loser; at a draw.
- 4 Pulled, towed, or extracted in the specified fashion. in-compounds
"tractor-drawn implement"
Adjective
- 1 having the curtains or draperies closed or pulled shut wordnet
- 2 showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering wordnet
Example
More examples"The wealthy, self-indulgent young man felt oddly drawn to the strict, ascetic life led by members of some monastic orders."
Etymology
Morphologically draw + -n.
Related phrases
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