Draw In

Definition: Draw In

Draw In

Verb

1. Remove as if by suction; "draw in air".

2. Pull inward or towards a center; "The pilot drew in the landing gear"; "The cat retracted his claws".

3. Direct toward itself or oneself; "Her good looks attract the stares of many men"; "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".

4. Shape one's body into a curl; "She curled farther down under the covers"; "She fell and drew in".

5. Advance or converge on; "The police were closing in on him".

6. Move into (a station) of trains; "The bullet train drew into Tokyo Station".

7. Draw in as if by suction; "suck in your cheeks and stomach".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Draw In

Contraction

Render smaller, lessen, diminish, contract, draw in, narrow, coarctate; boil down; constrict, constringe; condense, compress, squeeze, corrugate, crimp, crunch, crush, crumple up, warp, purse up, pack, squeeze, stow; pinch, tighten, strangle; cramp; dwarf, bedwarf; shorten; circumscribe; restrain.

Humility

Lower one's tone, lower one's note; sing small, draw in one's horns, sober down; hide one's face, hide one's diminished head; not dare to show one's face, take shame to oneself, not have a word to say for oneself; feel shame, be conscious of shame, feel disgrace, be conscious of disgrace; drink the cup of humiliation to the dregs.

Modesty

Verb: be modest; Adjective: retire, reserve oneself; give way to; draw in one's horns; hide one's face.

Painting

Verb: paint, design, limn draw, sketch, pencil, scratch, shade, stipple, hatch, dash off, chalk out, square up; color, dead color, wash, varnish; draw in pencil; Noun: paint in oils; Noun: stencil; depict; (represent).

Reception

Verb: give entrance to, give admittance to, give the entree; introduce, intromit; usher, admit, receive, import, bring in, open the door to, throw in, ingest, absorb, imbibe, inhale, breathe in; let in, take in, suck in, draw in; readmit, resorb, reabsorb; snuff up, swallow, ingurgitate; engulf, engorge; gulp; eat, drink; (food).

Submission

Surrender, surrender at discretion; cede, capitulate, come to terms, retreat, beat a retreat; draw in one's horns; (humility); give way, give round, give in, give up; cave in; suffer judgment by default; bend, bend to one's yoke, bend before the storm; reel back; bend down, knuckle down, knuckle to, knuckle under; knock under.

Tergiversation

Draw in one's horns, eat one's words; eat the leek, swallow the leek; swerve, flinch, back out of, retrace one's steps, think better of it; come back return to one's first love; turn over a new leaf; (repent).

Crosswords: Draw In

Books

• Drawing in 3-D With Mark Kistler: From Amazing Androids to Zesty Zephyrs, 333 Neat Things to Draw in 3-D (reference)

• Mark Kistler's Imagination Station/Learn How to Draw in 3-D With Public Television's Favorite Drawing Teacher! (reference)

• Moony B. Finch, the Fastest Draw in the West (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Mark Kistler's Imagination Station, Dare to Draw in 3-D; Adventure title: Hovering Hippos (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Petroglyphs at Long Draw in Southern Harney County, Oregon. Credit: Rick Hall.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "draw in": draw in indian ink ♦ draw in one's horns ♦ draw in pencil ♦ To draw in. Additional references.

Albanian

vjen (comes, feel, follow, leap, reek, spring), shkurtohet, mbërrij (appear, arrive, come, get, show up, turn up). (various references)

Bulgarian 

въвличам (commit, entangle, implicate, involve, mix up, plunge), вкарвам (drive, drive in, fit in, get in, introduce, let in, put in, set, stick, thrust, wheel in). (various references)

Czech

zlákat (lead on), přijet (arrive, come, come up, reach, ride up). (various references)

Finnish

luonnostaa (draw in outline, sketch). (various references)

German

sich melden (announce one's presence, answer, come forward, enlist, enter, get in touch, hold up one's hand, make an appointment, make itself felt, pipe up, put smb.'s hand up, report, set in, sign up, step forward, to report), einziehen (breathe in, bring in, call in, call up, collect, confiscate, conscript, draft, draw up, duck, gather in, haul in, hold in, hunch, indent, induct, levy, lower, march in, move in, move into, muster in, pull in, put in, recall, requisition, retract, retraction, seize, settle in, sniff, soak in, soak up, suck in, take away, take in, thread, to move in, wind in, withdraw), einfahren (bed in, break in, bring in, come in, knock down, pull in, retract, run in). (various references)

Greek 

μικραίνω (diminish, lessen, shorten, wane), μπάζω μέσα, τελειώνω (be through, break up, complete, conclude, end, end up, finish, get through). (various references)

Hungarian

takarékoskodik (economize, to draw in, to economize, to save, to spare, to stint). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

控える (to be temperate in, to draw in, to hold back, to make notes). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひき�"む (to draw in, to win over), ひっ�"める (to draw in, to take in), ひかえる (to be temperate in, to draw in, to hold back, to make notes). (various references)

Manx

tayrn stiagh (call in, inhale, pull in), giarrey neose (chop down, retrench, retrenchment), cur er boayrd (embark, haul, serve up, shipment). (various references)

Pig Latin

awdray inay

Portuguese

ter como conseqüência (involve, result), misturar (admix, blend, combine, commingle, concoct, confound, diffuse, fuse, huddle, incorporate, interfuse, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, involve, jumble, knead, mash, medley, merge, mingle, mix up, shuffle, temper), implicar (carry, connotate, connote, entangle, implicate, imply, import, infer, involve, predicate, presuppose, purport, spell, suggest), envolver (beset, circumvent, close, convolve, cover, enclasp, enfold, entangle, envelop, enwrap, fold, gird, implicate, import, invest, involve, lap, lap up, mantle, mix up, wind, wrap). (various references)

Romanian

se sfârşi (be at an end, come to an end, end, end one's day, expire, pass, pass away, perish, stop), se scurta (close in, shorten, shrink), se apropia de sfârşit, reduce (abate, abridge, ax, axe, bear down, bring, cancel out, contract, curtail, cut, decrease, derogate, detract, diminish, discount, drop, extenuate, fine down, knock down, knock off, lessen, lower, make good, narrow down, pare down, prune, recover, reduce, retrench, slacken, stint, stop, unbend, weaken), atrage (allure, appeal, attract, bespeak, call, captivate, commend, conciliate, court, decoy, draw, enamor, enamour, engage, entice, fetch, fix, interest, inveigle, lure, magnetize, win). (various references)

Russian 

вовлекать (immerse, implicate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uneti (bring in, carry in, enter, fill in, import, inscribe, introduce, take in), ucrtati (inscribe). (various references)

Spanish

tomar (accept, catch, draw, drink, eat, engulf, get, have, impound, lay hold of, lift out, live, live off, live on, live through, pick up, receive, reduce, strike, swallow up, take, take in, take on, take out, take up, take upon, taking, throw out, to have, to take, touch, treat, understand), tirar hacia dentro, retirar (draw, draw back, drop, pension off, recall, remove, retire, retract, scratch, withdraw), llegar (arrive, blow in, break through, bring up, catch, come, come across, come in, come of, come over, come round, come through, dock, end up, get, get around, get in, immigrate, infiltrate, invade, jockey, land, last out, pass, pull in, reach, ride up, roll along, roll in, roll up, spend, throw out, to arrive, top off, touch down, travel, turn up, vaporize), hacerse más cortos, entrar (access, approach, attack, bob in, bring in, call in, capture, come in, enter, fit, get at, get in, go in, go up, input, introduce, invade, march in, pass in, perform, pull in, put in, rise, sail in, show in, step in, tackle, to enter, wade in, walk in), atraer (allure, appeal, appeal to, arrest, attire, attract, beat up, beckon, bring in, draw, engage, entice, fetch, inveigle, invoke, lure, pull, pull in, tempt), aspirar (aim, aspirate, aspire, breathe, breathe in, inhale, snuff, suck in, suck up), acostarse (bed down, bunk, go to bed, lie, lie down, shake down, tumble, turn in). (various references)

Swedish

dra in (call in, discontinue, embroil, implicate, indent, instal, install, involve, retire, retract, take off), insupa (drink in, imbibe, suck), bli kortare, anlända (arrive, reach). (various references)

Turkish

solumak (blow, breathe, inhale, pant, respire), nefes almak (breath, breathe, draw a breath, draw breath, inhale, respire, suspire, take a breath), kenara yanaşmak, kısmak (abridge, attenuate, ax, axe, check, choke, choke back, choke off, curtail, cut back, cut down on, depress, diminish, economize, narrow, pare, pare down, pinch, put down, qualify, reduce, retrench, scrimp, skimp, soften, stint, throttle, throttle down, tighten, turn down), kısalmak (close in, close upon, run up, shorten, shrink), istasyona girmek (pull in), ayartmak (allure, beguile, bribe, carry away, corrupt, debauch, delude, demoralize, deprave, entice, entrap, incite, instigate, intrigue, inveigle, lead astray, lead on, lure, pervert, sacret, seduce, soap down, tamper with, tempt, wile), aklını çelmek (allure, beguile, bias, cozen, dissuade, entice away, infatuate, persuade, prepossess, suborn, sway). (various references)

Ukrainian

утягувати. (various references)

duco. (various references)

Misspellings

"Draw In" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: drawin. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: inward.

-1 letter: dinar, diwan, drain, drawn, nadir, ranid, rawin.

-2 letters: airn, arid, darn, dawn, draw, nard, raid, rain, rand, rani, rind, wadi, wain, wair, wand, ward, warn, wind.

-3 letters: aid, ain, air, and, ani, awn, daw, din, naw, rad, ran, raw, ria, rid, rin, wad, wan, war, win.

-4 letters: ad, ai, an, ar, aw, id, in.

+1 letter: drawing, indrawn, inwards, warding.

+2 letters: awarding, cordwain, drawings, drawling, dwarfing, handwrit, inwardly, misdrawn, swarding, windward.

+3 letters: cordwains, drawknife, handiwork, handwrite, inwrapped, rawhiding, redrawing, rewarding, undrawing, unwearied, wandering, windbreak, windwards, wiredrawn, withdrawn, wristband.

+4 letters: bedwarfing, cordwainer, dewatering, dinnerware, downstairs, drawknives, drawlingly, drawstring, forwarding, handiworks, handwrites, hardwiring, inwardness, misdrawing, outdrawing, rainwashed, rawinsonde, stewarding, tawdriness, wanderings, wardenries, wardenship, windbreaks, windjammer, wingspread, wristbands.