undrawn

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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undrawn

  1. past participle of undraw

Etymology 2

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From un- +‎ drawn.

Adjective

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undrawn (comparative more undrawn, superlative most undrawn)

  1. Not drawn (in various senses).
    • 1808, Charles Lucas, The Abissinian Reformer; Or, The Bible and Sabre: A Novel:
      With my back to the main-mast, I parried the first blow with my undrawn weapon. The blade of the second was lifted to strike me, when his comrade perceived my defensive state, and struck it aside.
    • 1900, Patents for Inventions: Abridgments of Specifications, page 75:
      This communication between the tank and pump is controlled by a float valve in the tanks and a cock in the pipe, while a poppet valve prevents the undrawn liquor going into the waste tank.
    • 1923, Elizabeth Bowen, “The Shadowy Third”, in Encounters, page 153:
      Here the curtains were undrawn and they could see the lights twinkling out in the windows of the other houses.
    • 2003, G. Rousseau, M. Gill, D. Haycock, Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History, page 6:
      The point of these distinctions is that the imagining of disease has much in common with imagining pictures, especially undrawn pictures in the mind.