drawn

English

Etymology

Morphologically draw +‎ -n.

Pronunciation

• enPR: drôn
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /dɹɔːn/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /dɹɔn/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /dɹɑn/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːn

Verb

drawn

1. 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)

1. Depleted.

   Hyponym: overdrawn

   1. (of a person) Appearing tired and unwell, as from stress; haggard.
2. (of a game) undecided; having no definite winner and loser; at a draw.

   Synonym: tied

   Hyponym: stalemated

3. (in combination) Pulled, towed, or extracted in the specified fashion.

   Hyponym: horse-drawn

   tractor-drawn implement

Derived terms

• drawn butter

 

Related terms

• drafted
• draughted

 

Translations

appearing tired and unwell, haggard

• Maori: korotūangaanga

Anagrams

• warn'd

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /drau̯n/

Verb

drawn

1. Soft mutation of trawn.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
trawn	drawn	nhrawn	thrawn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.