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drawn

/dɹɔːn/ UK
/dɹɔn/ US
/dɹɑn/ cot caught merger

Rhymes with -ɔːn

Where it comes from

Morphologically draw + -n.

verb

participle, past past participle of draw 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

adjective more drawn · most drawn

Depleted.
of a person or person's face Appearing tired and unwell, as from stress; haggard. The lean, drawn starvelings in their dream-stupefied state were jealous of my well filled out, prosperous form.
Similar: careworn, weary, haggard, drawn, woeworn
of a game Undecided; having no definite winner and loser; at a draw.
Similar: tied
in compounds Pulled, towed, or extracted in the specified fashion. tractor-drawn implement

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Closest in meaning: haggard, careworn, tired, raddled, worn, taut, closed, delineate, tense, delineated, represented, shot, stressed, involved, blown, withheld

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@misc{drawn_2026,
  title = {drawn},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/drawn},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}