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draw out
verb
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What it means

  1. verb cause to speak
    “Can you draw her out--she is always so quiet”
  2. verb make more sociable
    “The therapist drew out the shy girl”
  3. verb remove by suction
    “aspirate the wound”
  4. verb lengthen in time
    “We prolonged our stay”
  5. verb deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
    “We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant”
  6. verb remove, usually with some force or effort
    “pull weeds”