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You can make 12 words from draw according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of draw

draw rdaw darw adrw radw ardw drwa rdwa dwra wdra rwda wrda dawr adwr dwar wdar awdr wadr rawd arwd rwad wrad awrd ward

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word draw. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in draw.

Definitions and meaning of draw

draw

Etymology

From Middle English drawen, draȝen, dragen (“to drag, pull, push, draw (out), go to, make, add, etc.”), from Old English dragan, from Proto-West Germanic *dragan, from Proto-Germanic *draganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to draw, pull”). Doublet of drag and draught.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɹɔː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɹɔ/, [d͡ʒɹɔ], (intrusive r, New England) [d͡ʒɹɔɹ]
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /dɹɑ/
• Homophone: drawer (RP)
• Rhymes: -ɔː

Verb

draw (third-person singular simple present draws, present participle drawing, simple past drew, past participle drawn or (colloquial and nonstandard) drew)

1. To pull or exert force.
   1. To pull (something) in a particular manner or direction. [from 8th c.]

   2. To drag (a person, thing, or part of the body), especially along the ground. [from 10th c.]
   3. (transitive) To pull (a plough, vehicle etc.); to cause (something) to move forwards by pulling it. [from 11th c.]
   4. (archery) To pull back (the string of a bow) in preparation for shooting. [from 12th c.]
   5. To move (a part of one's body) in a particular direction. [from 13th c.]

   6. To pull (a curtain, blinds etc.) open or closed. [from 13th c.]

   7. (intransitive, now rare) To pull something along; to have force to move anything by pulling. [from 14th c.]

   8. To pull (one's face, features) out of shape, from emotion etc. [from 14th c.]
   9. (now rare) To construct (a wall, canal etc.) from one point to another. [from 15th c.]
   10. To require (a depth of water) for floating. [from 15th c.]
   11. (reflexive) To assume a specific position or attitude. [from 17th c.]

   12. To pull (a belt or other item) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely. [from 17th c.]

   13. (curling) To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones. [from 18th c.]
   14. (intransitive, now rare) To be pulled along (in a specified way). [from 19th c.]

   15. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket. [from 19th c.]
   16. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left. [from 19th c.]
   17. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball. [from 19th c.]
2. To attract, exert an influence on.
   1. To induce (the mind, eyes, attention etc.) to be directed at or focused on something. [from 9th c.]
   2. To cause (someone) to come to a particular place, condition, or course of action; to attract (a person). [from 12th c.]
   3. To take (air, smoke etc.) into the lungs; to inhale. [from 13th c.]
   4. (transitive, intransitive) To attract (something) by means of a physical force, especially magnetism or gravity; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement. [from 14th c.]
   5. To cause (something); to bring (something) about as a consequence. [from 14th c.]
   6. To provoke or attract (a particular response or reaction). [from 16th c.]

   7. (intransitive) To have a draught; to allow air to be passed through in order to allow for combustion. [from 18th c.]

3. To extend, protract.
   1. (obsolete) To extend the duration of (something); to prolong. [10th–19th c.]
   2. To make (wire) by pulling it through an aperture; to stretch (metal) into a wire. [from 13th c.]

   3. To stretch or elongate. [from 14th c.]

   4. (intransitive) To become contracted; to shrink. [from 17th c.]
   5. (nautical) Of a sail, to fill with wind. [from 17th c.]

4. To move, travel, approach.
   1. (reflexive, now rare) To move in a specific direction. [from 12th c.]
   2. (intransitive, used with prepositions and adverbs) To move steadily in a particular direction or into a specific position. [from 13th c.]

   3. To come to, towards (a particular moment in time); to approach (a time). [from 14th c.]
   4. (hunting, now rare) To search for game; to track a quarry. [from 16th c.]
5. To extract, remove, select.
   1. To pull out, unsheathe (a sword, firearm etc.). [from 12th c.]

   2. To take (water) from a well or other source. [from 13th c.]
   3. To disembowel (someone); to remove the viscera from (an animal), especially before cooking. [from 13th c.]
   4. (transitive, medicine, now rare) To extract (pus, humours, etc.) by means of medical treatment. [from 14th c.]
   5. To select (an item) at random to decide which of a group of people will receive or undergo something; to select (a person) by this process. [from 14th c.]
   6. To conduct (a lottery); to select (the numbers) for a lottery; to win (a prize) in a lottery. [from 16th c.]
   7. To extract (a tooth). [from 16th c.]
   8. To extract (juice, fluids etc.) from something by pressure, osmosis or similar. [from 16th c.]
   9. (card games) To take or be dealt (a card) from the deck; to have (a particular hand) as a result of this. [from 16th c.]

   10. (transitive, obsolete) To withdraw. [from 17th c.]
   11. (transitive or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning). [from 17th c.]
   12. (intransitive, transitive) To steep; to leave (tea) temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase. [from 18th c.]

   13. (intransitive) To take or be dealt a playing card from the deck. See also draw out.

   14. To run (a bath). [from 19th c.]
   15. (analogous) To consume (power).

6. To obtain, elicit.
   1. To take (something) from a particular source, especially of information; to derive. [from 13th c.]

   2. To call forth (something) from a person, to elicit. [from 14th c.]
   3. To deduce or infer (a conclusion); to make (a deduction). [from 16th c.]
   4. To receive (a salary); to withdraw (money) from a bank etc. [from 16th c.]

   5. To elicit information from (someone); to induce (a person) to speak on some subject. (Now frequently in passive.) [from 19th c.]

7. To represent.
   1. (transitive) To produce (a shape, figure, picture etc.) with pencil, crayon, chalk, or other implement. [from 14th c.]

   2. (transitive) To depict (something) linguistically; to portray in words. [from 14th c.]

   3. (transitive) To draw up, compose (a document). [from 14th c.]
   4. (intransitive) To produce an image of something by artistic means; to make drawings. [from 15th c.]

   5. (transitive) To produce a visual representation of (a person or thing) by lines and marks with pencil, pen, paints etc. [from 16th c.]

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Noun

draw (countable and uncountable, plural draws)

1. That which draws: that which attracts e.g. a crowd.
2. The act of drawing:
   1. The act of drawing a gun from a holster, etc.

   2. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
   3. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing; the distance the strings are pulled back.
3. The result of drawing:
   1. The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.

   2. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).
4. That which is drawn (e.g. funds from an account).

   They're going to take away our draw! (referring to e.g. disability assistance)

   1. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
5. Draft: flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.
6. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
7. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
8. (curling) A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
10. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
11. (slang, countable) A bag of cannabis.
12. (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
13. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.
14. (horse racing) The stall from which a horse begins the race.

Synonyms

• (the result of a contest in which neither side has won): stalemate
• (dry stream bed that drains water during periods of heavy precipitation): wash, arroyo, wadi, dry creek

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Translations

References

• “draw”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• -ward, Ward, ward

Welsh

Etymology

Related to Breton treu, Old Breton dydreu, didreu.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /draːu̯/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /drau̯/
• Rhymes: -au̯

Adverb

draw

1. there, yonder, beyond

   Synonyms: acw, hwnt

   Mae'n byw ochr draw'r mynydd. ― He/She lives on the other/far side of the mountain.

2. over

   Dere draw ar ôl y gwaith. ― Come over after work.

Usage notes

This adverb, originally the a soft-mutated form of traw, is found almost exclusively as unmutatable draw today except in literary contexts where forms such as aspirate-mutated thraw may be encountered.

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Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “draw”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies