Word.ws English Dictionary

adraw

/əˈdɹɔː/

adraw verb: to draw out; to draw (a sword).

Verb

adraw (third-person singular simple present adraws, present participle adrawing, simple past adrew, past participle adrawn)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To draw out; to draw (a sword).
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To withdraw oneself.

Forms of adraw

third-person singular presentadraws
present participleadrawing
pastadrew
past participleadrawn

Origin of adraw

From Middle English adrawen, adraȝen, from Old English ādragan (“to draw, draw out (a sword)”), equivalent to a- + draw.

Questions about adraw

What does adraw mean?
Adraw means to draw out; to draw (a sword).
What part of speech is adraw?
Adraw is a verb.
How do you pronounce adraw?
Adraw is pronounced /əˈdɹɔː/.
What is the past tense of adraw?
The past tense of adraw is adrew.

Words near adraw in the dictionary

  1. Adrasteans
  2. Adrasteian
  3. Adrastos
  4. adrate
  5. adrates
  6. adraw
  7. adrawing
  8. adrawn
  9. adraws
  10. adraxone
  11. adread

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: adraw (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “adraw.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/adraw. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.