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drawn

adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /dɹɔːn/ / /dɹɔn/ / /dɹɑn/

adj

Etymology: Morphologically draw + -n.

  1. Depleted.
  2. Depleted.

    The lean, drawn starvelings in their dream-stupefied state were jealous of my well filled out, prosperous form.

  3. Undecided; having no definite winner and loser; at a draw.
  4. Pulled, towed, or extracted in the specified fashion.

    tractor-drawn implement

verb

Etymology: Morphologically draw + -n.

  1. past participle of draw

    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.