Found 1 items, similar to draw out.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: draw out draw out v 1: cause to speak, “Can you draw her out--she is always so quiet” 2: 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” [syn: prolong, protract, extend] 3: make more sociable; “The therapist drew out the shy girl” 4: deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); “We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant” [syn: educe, evoke, elicit, extract] 5: draw or pull out, 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” [syn: extract, pull out, pull, pull up , take out]