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Textual thesaurus for "draw out"

(verb) prolong, protract, extend

lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer

We prolonged our stay; She extended her visit by another day; The meeting was drawn out until midnight


(verb) extract, pull, pull out, pull up, take out

remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense

pull weeds; extract a bad tooth; take out a splinter; extract information from the telegram


(verb) aspirate, suck out

remove as if by suction

aspirate the wound


(verb) educe, evoke, extract, elicit

deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)

We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant