undrawn
undrawn is the past participle of undraw.
Meaning of undraw
Verb
undraw (third-person singular simple present undraws, present participle undrawing, simple past undrew, past participle undrawn)
- To draw aside or open; to pull back a layer of fabric, e.g. a curtain.
- She undrew the curtain to reveal the shining rays of the sun.
- Synonyms:
- draw
- To clear or erase part of a drawing.
- It is easy to highlight graphics on a monochrome system. The simplest way is to set the GC to the GXxor logical function and draw your graphics once to draw them and again to undraw them.1992, Adrian Nye, XLIB Programming Manual, Rel. 5, page 205
Adjective
undrawn (comparative more undrawn, superlative most undrawn)
- Not drawn (in various senses).
- With my back to the main-mast, I parried the first blow with my undrawn weapon. The blade of the second was lifted to strike me, when his comrade perceived my defensive state, and struck it aside.1808, Charles Lucas, The Abissinian Reformer; Or, The Bible and Sabre: A Novel
- This communication between the tank and pump is controlled by a float valve in the tanks and a cock in the pipe, while a poppet valve prevents the undrawn liquor going into the waste tank.1900, Patents for Inventions: Abridgments of Specifications, page 75
Forms of undrawn
| comparative | more undrawn |
|---|---|
| superlative | most undrawn |
Origin of undrawn
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
From un- + drawn.
Questions about undrawn
- What does undrawn mean?
- Undrawn means not drawn (in various senses).
- What is undrawn the past participle of?
- Undrawn is the past participle of undraw.
- What part of speech is undrawn?
- Undrawn is an adjective.
Words near undrawn in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: undrawn (page history and authors); undraw (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.
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