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