drawn

English

Etymology

Morphologically draw +‎ -n.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: drôn
    • (UK) IPA(key): /dɹɔːn/
    • (US) IPA(key): /dɹɔn/
    • (cotcaught merger) IPA(key): /dɹɑn/
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  • Rhymes: -ɔːn

Verb

drawn

  1. I refused to be drawn on the classified info.
  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 or person's face) 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

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Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /drau̯n/

Verb

drawn

  1. soft mutation of trawn

Mutation

Mutated forms of trawn
radical soft nasal aspirate
trawn drawn nhrawn thrawn

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.