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drawn

verbadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//dɹɔːn//
  • United States//dɹɔn//
  • //dɹɑn//

Depleted.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of drawpast 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.

Etymology

Morphologically draw + -n.

adjective

  1. 1

    Depleted.

  2. 2

    Depleted. Appearing tired and unwell, as from stress; haggard.

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

  3. 3

    Undecided; having no definite winner and loser; at a draw.

  4. 4

    Pulled, towed, or extracted in the specified fashion.

    tractor-drawn implement

Forms

comparative
more drawn
superlative
most drawn
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).