drawn
adjUK /dɹɔːn/ · US /dɹɔn/
Etymology Morphologically draw + -n.
1
Depleted.
2
Appearing tired and unwell, as from stress; haggard.
Of a person or person's face
- The lean, drawn starvelings in their dream-stupefied state were jealous of my well filled out, prosperous form.1924 July 23 [1923 August 23], Samuel Badisch Ornitz, “Fifth Period”, in Haunch Paunch and Jowl, eighth printing, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, section III, page 218:
3
Of a game Undecided; having no definite winner and loser; at a draw.
4
In compounds Pulled, towed, or extracted in the specified fashion.
- tractor-drawn implement
- Derived terms
- airdrawn, drawn butter, drawnness, finedrawn, hand-drawn, indrawn, outdrawn, roughdrawn, undrawn
- Related terms
- drafted, draughted