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1. Cause to speak, "Can you draw her out--she is always so quiet"
    
2. Lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer
   - 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"
   - educe, evoke, elicit, extract
    
5. Remove as if by suction
   - aspirate, suck out
    
6. Remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
   - extract, pull out, pull, pull up, take out

Derived forms: drawing out, draws out, drew out, drawn out

See also: draw

Type of: construe, encourage, interpret, lengthen, reach out, remove, see, take, take away, withdraw