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wiredrew

wiredrew is the simple past of wiredraw.

Meaning of wiredraw

Verb

wiredraw (third-person singular simple present wiredraws, present participle wiredrawing, simple past wiredrew, past participle wiredrawn)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To stretch (some physical thing) out, as though drawing wire; to elongate.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To stretch (words, a meaning etc.) to suit one's own purpose.
    • I am of opinion that the uncontrouled libertie, that all men have to wrest, dissipate, and wyredraw a word so religious and important, to so many severall idiomes, hath much more danger than profit following it., I.56

Questions about wiredrew

What is wiredrew the simple past of?
Wiredrew is the simple past of wiredraw.

Words near wiredrew in the dictionary

  1. wiredrawers
  2. wiredrawing
  3. wiredrawings
  4. wiredrawn
  5. wiredraws
  6. wiredrew
  7. wireform
  8. wireforms
  9. wireframe
  10. wireframed
  11. wireframer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wiredrew (page history and authors); wiredraw (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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