drawn

1. participlepastpast participle of draw

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   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.

   2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist

comparative more drawn · superlative most drawn

1. Depleted.
   1. 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.

      1924 July 28 [1923 August 28], Samuel Badisch Ornitz, “Fifth Period”, in Haunch Paunch and Jowl, eighth printing, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, section III, page 218

      Synonyms: careworn, weary, careworn, haggard, weary, woeworn

2. Undecided; having no definite winner and loser; at a draw.

   Synonyms: tied

3. in compoundsPulled, towed, or extracted in the specified fashion.

   tractor-drawn implement