draw out
v 1: cause to speak, "Can you draw her out--she is always so
quiet"
2: lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer; "We prolonged
our stay"; "She extended her visit by another day"; "The
meeting was drawn out until midnight" [syn: prolong, protract,
extend]
3: make more sociable; "The therapist drew out the shy girl"
4: deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out
some interesting linguistic data from the native
informant" [syn: educe, evoke, elicit, extract]
5: draw or pull out, usually with some force or effort; also
used in an abstract sense; "pull weeds"; "extract a bad
tooth"; "take out a splinter"; "extract information from
the telegram" [syn: extract, pull out, pull, pull
up, take out]
WordNet (r) 2.0
100 Moby Thesaurus words for "draw out":
arouse, avulse, bring forth, bring out, bring to light, call forth,
call out, call up, chatter, continue, cut out, dawdle, deduce,
deracinate, derive, dig out, dig up, disentangle, drag out, draw,
draw forth, dredge, dredge up, dwell on, educe, elicit, elongate,
eradicate, evoke, evolve, evulse, excavate, excise, exsect, extend,
extract, extricate, fill out, get from, get out, get out of,
gouge out, grub up, induce, lengthen, lengthen out, let out,
linger on, mine, never finish, obtain, pad, perorate, pick out,
pluck out, pluck up, procrastinate, procure, produce, prolong,
prolongate, protract, pull, pull out, pull up, quarry, rake out,
remove, rip out, root out, root up, rouse, run out, secure,
speak at length, spin out, stimulate, strain, stretch, stretch out,
string out, summon forth, summon up, take out, tauten, tear out,
temporize, tense, tighten, unearth, unravel, uproot, wangle,
wangle out of, weed out, winkle out, withdraw, worm out,
worm out of, wrest out
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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