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”, 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

Statistics

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

Anagrams

• warn'd