drawn

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: drôn, IPA^(key): /drɔːn/
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [dɹɔːn]
  • (US) IPA^(key): [dɹɔn]

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  • (US, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): [dɹɑn]
• Rhymes: -ɔːn

Verb

drawn

1. past participle of draw
   • 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:

     The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, […] . Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.

Adjective

drawn ‎(comparative more drawn, superlative most drawn)

1. Appearing agitated and unwell

Translations

appearing agitated and unwell, haggard

• Maori: korotūangaanga

Statistics

Most common English words before 1923: bit · Indian · produce · #826: drawn · field · street · attempt

Anagrams

• warn'd