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undrew

undrew is the simple past of undraw.

Meaning of undraw

Verb

undraw (third-person singular simple present undraws, present participle undrawing, simple past undrew, past participle undrawn)

  1. (transitive) 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
  2. (transitive) 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

Questions about undrew

What is undrew the simple past of?
Undrew is the simple past of undraw.

Words near undrew in the dictionary

  1. undresses with one's eyes
  2. undressing
  3. undressing with one's eyes
  4. undressings
  5. undrest
  6. undrew
  7. undriable
  8. undried
  9. undrillable
  10. undrilled
  11. undrink

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Adapted from Wiktionary: undrew (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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