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From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  draw out
       v 1: cause to speak, "Can you draw her out--she is always so
            quiet"
       2: lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer; "We prolonged
          our stay"; "She extended her visit by another day"; "The
          meeting was drawn out until midnight" [syn: prolong, protract,
           extend]
       3: make more sociable; "The therapist drew out the shy girl"
       4: deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out
          some interesting linguistic data from the native
          informant" [syn: educe, evoke, elicit, extract]
       5: draw or pull out, usually with some force or effort; also
          used in an abstract sense; "pull weeds"; "extract a bad
          tooth"; "take out a splinter"; "extract information from
          the telegram" [syn: extract, pull out, pull, pull
          up, take out]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  draw out
     vb.
     1 To make something last for more time than is necessary; prolong;
  extend.
     2 To physically extract, as blood from a vein.
     3 To extract, bring out, as concealed information; elicit; educe.
     4 To use means to entice or force (an animal) from its hole or
  similar hiding place.
     5 (lb en by extension) To cause (a shy person) to be more open or
  talkative.
     6 (lb en poker) To improve a losing hand to a winning hand by
  receiving additional cards.
     7 (lb en obsolete intransitive) To leave the place (of an army),
  etc.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  draw out
     vb.
     1 To make something last for more time than is necessary; prolong;
  extend.
     2 To physically extract, as blood from a vein.
     3 To extract, bring out, as concealed information; elicit; educe.
     4 To use means to entice or force (an animal) from its hole or
  similar hiding place.
     5 (lb en by extension) To cause (a shy person) to be more open or
  talkative.
     6 (lb en poker) To improve a losing hand to a winning hand by
  receiving additional cards.
     7 (lb en obsolete intransitive) To leave the place (of an army),
  etc.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  draw out
     vb.
     1 To make something last for more time than is necessary; prolong;
  extend.
     2 To physically extract, as blood from a vein.
     3 To extract, bring out, as concealed information; elicit; educe.
     4 To use means to entice or force (an animal) from its hole or
  similar hiding place.
     5 (lb en by extension) To cause (a shy person) to be more open or
  talkative.
     6 (lb en poker) To improve a losing hand to a winning hand by
  receiving additional cards.
     7 (lb en obsolete intransitive) To leave the place (of an army),
  etc.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  draw out
     vb.
     1 To make something last for more time than is necessary; prolong;
  extend.
     2 To physically extract, as blood from a vein.
     3 To extract, bring out, as concealed information; elicit; educe.
     4 To use means to entice or force (an animal) from its hole or
  similar hiding place.
     5 (lb en by extension) To cause (a shy person) to be more open or
  talkative.
     6 (lb en poker) To improve a losing hand to a winning hand by
  receiving additional cards.
     7 (lb en obsolete intransitive) To leave the place (of an army),
  etc.

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  draw out /dɹˈɔː ˈaʊt/
  prodloužit

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  draw out /dɹˈɔː ˈaʊt/
  etw. zücken 
        "draw out a pistol"  - eine Pistole zücken / ziehen
     Synonym: pull out
  
   see: pulling out, drawing out, pulled out, drawn out, pulls out, draws out, pulled out, drew out
  

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  draw out /dɹˈɔː ˈaʊt/
  
  κάνω ανάληψη

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  draw out /dɹˈɔː ˈaʊt/ 
  1. parantaa
  poker: to improve a losing hand
  2. houkutella
  to entice or force from a hiding place
  3. paljastaa
  to extract, bring out
  4. pitkittää
  to make something last for more time than is necessary
  5. valuttaa, vuodattaa
  to physically extract

From English-French FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-fra ]

  draw out /drɔːaut/
  répandre

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  draw out /dɹˈɔː ˈaʊt/ 
  dra ut, förhala
  to make something last for more time than is necessary

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  100 Moby Thesaurus words for "draw out":
     arouse, avulse, bring forth, bring out, bring to light, call forth,
     call out, call up, chatter, continue, cut out, dawdle, deduce,
     deracinate, derive, dig out, dig up, disentangle, drag out, draw,
     draw forth, dredge, dredge up, dwell on, educe, elicit, elongate,
     eradicate, evoke, evolve, evulse, excavate, excise, exsect, extend,
     extract, extricate, fill out, get from, get out, get out of,
     gouge out, grub up, induce, lengthen, lengthen out, let out,
     linger on, mine, never finish, obtain, pad, perorate, pick out,
     pluck out, pluck up, procrastinate, procure, produce, prolong,
     prolongate, protract, pull, pull out, pull up, quarry, rake out,
     remove, rip out, root out, root up, rouse, run out, secure,
     speak at length, spin out, stimulate, strain, stretch, stretch out,
     string out, summon forth, summon up, take out, tauten, tear out,
     temporize, tense, tighten, unearth, unravel, uproot, wangle,
     wangle out of, weed out, winkle out, withdraw, worm out,
     worm out of, wrest out
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  拉长;掏出(手帕等)

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     拉长,拖长,延长

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