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updraw

updraw verb: to draw up.

Verb

updraw (third-person singular simple present updraws, present participle updrawing, simple past updrew, past participle updrawn)

  1. (rare, transitive) To draw up
    • Forthwith the huge portcullis high updrew1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...

Noun

updraw (plural updraws)

  1. An act of drawing up; an upward draw, pull, or attraction
    • The porch mood is the condition from which there is an updraw or a downdraw.2011, Frederic Will, Time, Accounts, Surplus Meaning: Settings of the Theophanic
    • Wow, you're quick on the updraw!2013, Douglas Hofstadter, Emmanuel Sander, Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking

Forms of updraw

Verb
third-person singular presentupdraws
present participleupdrawing
pastupdrew
past participleupdrawn
Noun
pluralupdraws

Origin of updraw

From Middle English updrawen, updrauen, equivalent to up- + draw. Compare Dutch opdragen, German auftragen, Swedish uppdraga.

Questions about updraw

What does updraw mean?
Updraw means to draw up.
What part of speech is updraw?
Updraw can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of updraw?
The past tense of updraw is updrew.

Words near updraw in the dictionary

  1. updragging
  2. updrags
  3. updrainage
  4. updraught
  5. updraughts
  6. updraw
  7. updrawing
  8. updrawn
  9. updraws
  10. updrew
  11. updried

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