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drawn (root: draw)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective drawn has 2 senses
- drawn(s = adj.all) careworn, haggard, raddled, worn - showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"
- drawn(s = adj.all) Array - having the curtains or draperies closed or pulled shut; "the drawn draperies kept direct sunlight from fading the rug"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
drawn, past part. of DRAW.
--adj.
1 looking strained from fear, anxiety, or pain.
2 (of butter) melted.
3 (of a position in chess etc.) that will result in a draw if both players make the best moves available.
--adj.
1 looking strained from fear, anxiety, or pain.
2 (of butter) melted.
3 (of a position in chess etc.) that will result in a draw if both players make the best moves available.
Idiom
drawn-work (or drawn-thread-work) ornamental work on linen etc., done by drawing out threads, usu. with additional needlework.
THESAURUS
drawn
alike, at par, au pair, careworn, commensurate, dragged out, drawn out, elongated, equal, equalized, even, even stephen, exhausted, extended, fatigued, fifty-fifty, haggard, half-and-half, hollow-eyed, knotted, lengthened, level, like, nip and tuck, on a footing, on a level, on a par, on even ground, par, pinched, prolongated, prolonged, proportionate, protracted, pulled, quits, ravaged, spun out, square, stalemated, straggling, strained, stretched, stretched out, strung out, taut, tense, tied, tight, tired, tired-eyed, tired-faced, tired-looking, wan, weary-looking, worn, worn outROGET THESAURUS
drawn
Equality
N equality, parity, coextension, symmetry, balance, poise, evenness, monotony, level, equivalence, equipollence, equipoise, equilibrium, equiponderance, par, quits, a wash, not a pin to choose, distinction without a difference, six of one and half a dozen of the other, tweedle dee and tweedle dum, identity, similarity, equalization, equation, equilibration, co-ordination, adjustment, readjustment, drawn game, drawn battle, neck and neck race, tie, draw, standoff, dead heat, match, peer, compeer, equal, mate, fellow, brother, equivalent, equal, even, level, monotonous, coequal, symmetrical, coordinate, on a par with, on a level with, on a footing with, up to the mark, equiparant, equivalent, tantamount, indistinguishable, quits, homologous, synonymous, resolvable into, convertible, much at one, as broad as long, neither more nor less, much the same as, the same thing as, as good as, all one, all the same, equipollent, equiponderant, equiponderous, equibalanced, equalized, drawn, half and half, isochronal, isochronous isoperimetric, isoperimetrical, isobath, isobathic, equally, pari passu, ad eundum, caeteris paribus, in equilibrio, to all intents and purposes, it comes to the same thing, it amounts to the same thing, what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gande.
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