draw down
verb- To lower (curtains, a portcullis, etc.).
- To reduce (e.g. by withdrawal).
- To initiate a drawdown (withdrawal of equipment, supplies, etc., potentially to provide it to another party).
- To acquire or pull in, as funding. · We need to draw down 10 million dollars.
- To pull out a firearm and point it at someone.
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Never, even in the company of his dear friends at Netherfield, or his dignified relations at Rosings, had she seen him so desirous to please, so free from self-consequence or unbending reserve, as now, when no importance could result from the success of his endeavours, and when even the acquaintance of those to whom his attentions were addressed, would draw down the ridicule and censure of the ladies both of Netherfield and Rosings.
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