drawn

• enPR: drôn, IPA^(key): /dɹɔːn/
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [dɹɔːn]
  • (US) IPA^(key): [dɹɔn]

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  • (US, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): [dɹɑn]
• Rhymes: -ɔːn

drawn

1. past participle of draw
   • 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:

     The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, […] . Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.

drawn (comparative more drawn, superlative most drawn)

1. Appearing tired and unwell, as from stress; haggard.
2. Of a game: undecided; having no definite winner and loser.

• overdrawn

• warn'd