drawn

English

Etymology

Morphologically draw + -n.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: drôn
    • (UK) IPA(key): /dɹɔːn/
    • (US) IPA(key): /dɹɔn/
    • (US, cotcaught merger) IPA(key): /dɹɑn/
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  • Rhymes: -ɔːn

Verb

drawn

  1. past participle of draw
    • 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
      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.

Adjective

drawn (comparative more drawn, superlative most drawn)

  1. Appearing tired and unwell, as from stress; haggard.
  2. Of a game: undecided; having no definite winner and loser.

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Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /drau̯n/

Verb

drawn

  1. Soft mutation of trawn.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
trawn drawn nhrawn thrawn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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