drawn

Morphologically draw +‎ -n.

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

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• Rhymes: -ɔːn

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.

drawn (comparative more drawn, superlative most drawn)

1. Depleted.

   Hyponym: overdrawn

   1. (of a person or person's face) Appearing tired and unwell, as from stress; haggard.

      Synonyms: careworn, weary; see also Thesaurus:haggard

      • 1924 July [1923 August], Samuel Badisch Ornitz, “Fifth Period”, in Haunch Paunch and Jowl, eighth printing, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, section III, page 218:

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

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

• warn'd

• IPA^(key): /drau̯n/

drawn

1. soft mutation of trawn