Meanings
verbdraw blank (third-person singular simple present draws blank, present participle drawing blank, simple past drew blank, past participle drawn blank)
present singular third person draws blank · participle present drawing blank · past drew blank · participle past drawn blank
- archaictransitiveTo search (something) without finding what one was looking for.
‘Last time we were here we drew the whole place blank, and old D. cursed the keeper's head off and accused him of poisoning the foxes, so I suppose he did it to get a bit of his own back!’
1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 24
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “draw blank,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/draw%20blank.
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