draw out
verb- To make (something) last for more time than is necessary; to prolong; to extend. · It seems the boss tries to draw out these meetings for as long as possible just to punish us.
- To physically extract, as blood from a vein.
- To extract, to bring out, as concealed information; to elicit; to educe.
- To use means to entice or force (an animal) from its hole or similar hiding place. · They used raw meat to draw the beast out of the cave.
- To cause (a shy person) to be more open or talkative. · She's really a neat person if you just take the time to draw her out.
- To redraw an electoral district in order to make it unlikely a particular candidate or party will win it.
- To improve a losing hand to a winning hand by receiving additional cards. · Jill had a flush on the turn, but Jimmy drew out by completing a full house on the river.
From the library
A WOLF who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a Crane, for a large sum, to put her head into his mouth and draw out the bone.
When the Crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promised payment, the Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: “Why, you have surely already had a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a wolf.”
A bystander said to him, “Be satisfied with half the quantity, and you will readily draw out your hand.”
“No; he is not a man that it is easy to draw out, though he can be communicative enough when the fancy seizes him.”
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