Wiredraw
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To stretch (some physical thing) out, as though drawing wire; to elongate. archaic, transitive
- 2 To stretch (words, a meaning etc.) to suit one's own purpose. obsolete, transitive
"I am of opinion that the uncontrouled libertie, that all men have to wrest, dissipate, and wyredraw a word so religious and important, to so many severall idiomes, hath much more danger than profit following it."
Example
More examples"I am of opinion that the uncontrouled libertie, that all men have to wrest, dissipate, and wyredraw a word so religious and important, to so many severall idiomes, hath much more danger than profit following it."
Etymology
From wire + draw.
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