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Draw in   /drɔ ɪn/   Listen
Draw in

verb
1.
Pull inward or towards a center.  Synonym: retract.  "The cat retracted his claws"
2.
Direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes.  Synonyms: attract, draw, pull, pull in.  "The ad pulled in many potential customers" , "This pianist pulls huge crowds" , "The store owner was happy that the ad drew in many new customers"
3.
Shape one's body into a curl.  Synonyms: curl, curl up.  "She fell and drew in"
4.
Advance or converge on.  Synonym: close in.
5.
Of trains; move into (a station).  Synonyms: get in, move in, pull in.
6.
Draw in as if by suction.  Synonym: suck in.






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"Draw in" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Queenes be't: Good should be pertinent, But so it is, it is not. Was this taken By any vnderstanding Pate but thine? For thy Conceit is soaking, will draw in More then the common Blocks. Not noted, is't, But of the finer Natures? by some Seueralls Of Head-peece extraordinarie? Lower Messes Perchance are to ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare

... Marzio continued to draw in silence, and after a few minutes, Don Paolo rose to take his leave. The chiseller did not ...
— Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster • F. Marion Crawford

... close air of the Potlatch-house, it was good to draw in the freshness of the out-of-doors. The two tall totems framed a golden naked moon that hung above the hills across the bay. The shimmering path from its glow threw into silhouette the prows of the ...
— Where the Sun Swings North • Barrett Willoughby

... light soil. Crossing the Courtableau above Washington, the line of march now lay along the east bank of the Boeuf, by Holmesville and Cheneyville, through a country of increasing richness and beauty, gradually rising with quickened undulations almost until the bluffs that border the Red River draw in sight. ...
— History of the Nineteenth Army Corps • Richard Biddle Irwin

... convenient passages under the wings for the emitting, at least, of the air, if not admitting, as in the gills of Fishes is most evident; or, perhaps, this Pendulum might be somewhat like the staff to a Pump, whereby these creatures might exercise their Analogous lungs, and not only draw in, but force out, the air they live by: but these were but conjectures, and upon ...
— Micrographia • Robert Hooke


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