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Definition of Drawn-out

1. Adjective. Relatively long in duration; tediously protracted. "Protracted negotiations"

2. Adjective. (used of speech) uttered slowly with prolonged vowels.

Definition of Drawn-out

1. Adjective. Protracted, made to take a longer period of time than necessary. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Drawn-out

drawlers drawlier drawliest drawling drawlingly drawlings drawlink drawlinks drawloom drawlooms

drawls drawly drawmaster drawmasters drawn drawn-out (current term) drawn and quartered drawn out drawne drawnet

drawnets drawnness drawnwork drawnworks drawplate drawplates drawrod drawrods draws

Literary usage of Drawn-out

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"But Hippocrates having drawn out tbe whole population of Athens, citizens, resident aliens, and all the. ..."

2. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1812)
"... our intents to have drawn out the great Handing lottery long before this, ... (hall be drawn out with à blank - - - - - 100 To the fécond - ...50 To the ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"The Pauline letters, on the contrary, are true letters, drawn out by special occasions, colored by definite situations. They are a unique element in the ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... has drawn out a new code of her own—a thirty-nine articles of her own devising, which I must subscribe, or forfeit her support. ..."

5. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1839)
"... fell upon a regiment of dra- ,pws, quartered a mile eastward from the town ; so brisk an alarm to the king's army, that :«s immediately drawn out, ..."

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