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DREW
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States actor (born in Ireland); father of Georgiana Emma Barrymore (1827-1862)
Synonyms:
Drew; John Drew
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
actor; histrion; player; role player; thespian (a theatrical performer)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple of the verb draw
Context examples:
They drew near on tiptoe, turned it on its back and beheld the face of Edward Hyde.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
They, on their part, drew gradually together towards the far end of the block house, and the low hiss of their whispering sounded in my ear continuously, like a stream.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Abbot drew his gray brows low over his fiercely questioning eyes.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
His other he threw round my waist, and drew me to the side of his chair.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
So she took the bread-shovel and drew them all out.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
When these people drew near the house where Dorothy was standing in the doorway, they paused and whispered among themselves, as if afraid to come farther.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
By degrees I was brought into another room, whence I peeped into the street, but drew my head back in a fright.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
But my toils now drew near a close, and in two months from this time I reached the environs of Geneva.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
As they drew closer and orbited faster, the stars eventually broke apart and merged, producing both a gamma-ray burst and a rarely seen flare-up called a "kilonova."
(NASA Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event, NASA)
"We know warming oceans pose a threat to coral reefs around the world," said Allison Tracy, who conducted the work with marine scientist Drew Harvell.
(Sea fan corals face new threat in warming ocean: copper, National Science Foundation)
