updraw

present singular third person updraws · participle present updrawing · past updrew · participle past updrawn

1. raretransitiveTo draw up

   Forthwith the huge portcullis high updrew

   1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC

plural updraws

1. An act of drawing up; an upward draw, pull, or attraction

   Wow, you're quick on the updraw!

   2013, Douglas Hofstadter, Emmanuel Sander, Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking

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   The porch mood is the condition from which there is an updraw or a downdraw.

   2011, Frederic Will, Time, Accounts, Surplus Meaning: Settings of the Theophanic

   The main risk of this area is the overabstraction of the limited shallow freshwater reserves that will result in the updraw and infiltration of saltwater as well as the salinization, sodification, and alcalinization of soils by excessive irrigation as described above […].

   2016, Karen Sudmeier-Rieux, Manuela Fernández, Ivanna Penna, Identifying Emerging Issues in Disaster Risk Reduction, Migration, Climate Change and Sustainable Development