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DRAW UP
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make up plans or basic details for
Example:
frame a policy
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "draw up" is one way to...):
plan (make plans for something)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Come to a halt after driving somewhere
Example:
The chauffeur hauled up in front of us
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "draw up" is one way to...):
halt; stop (come to a halt, stop moving)
Verb group:
draw up; pull up (cause (a vehicle) to stop)
Domain category:
driving (the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Sense 3
Meaning:
Cause (a vehicle) to stop
Example:
He pulled up the car in front of the hotel
Synonyms:
draw up; pull up
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "draw up" is one way to...):
stop (cause to stop)
Verb group:
draw up; haul up; pull up (come to a halt after driving somewhere)
Domain category:
driving (the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
Straighten oneself
Example:
He drew himself up when he talked to his superior
Synonyms:
draw up; pull up; straighten up
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "draw up" is one way to...):
straighten (get up from a sitting or slouching position)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 5
Meaning:
Form or arrange in order or formation, as of a body of soldiers
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "draw up" is one way to...):
form; organise; organize (create (as an entity))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Context examples:
The enchantress remarked nothing of this, until once Rapunzel said to her: Tell me, Dame Gothel, how it happens that you are so much heavier for me to draw up than the young king’s son—he is with me in a moment.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
It is pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped this truth that in these little records of our cases which you have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made my special province.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He then commanded his general (who was an old experienced leader, and a great patron of mine) to draw up the troops in close order, and march them under me; the foot by twenty-four abreast, and the horse by sixteen, with drums beating, colours flying, and pikes advanced.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
You may now want to draw up new goals—and paint them boldly on a much broader canvas.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
If you are not dating anyone seriously, married, or living with someone, this full moon might bring a commitment between you and a business expert, and you might draw up papers to make it all official.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The word "sensuous" had the effect of further disquieting Tom but before he could invent a protest the coupé came to a stop and Daisy signalled us to draw up alongside.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
