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Synonyms for draw
Synonyms for draw: make, disembowel, haul, line and tie. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 5 synonyms for draw
Interchangeable with draw, one per sense
Audited under draw's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one draw carries in that sense.
- makeverb, in the sense "make, formulate, or derive in the mind"
- disembowelverb, in the sense "remove the entrails of"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name draw as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
Two directions, one standard: two audited under draw and three under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
make, formulate, or derive in the mind
We can draw a comparison between the two poems.
draw in 2 more sentences, same sense
- The auditor will draw a distinction between the two accounting methods before finalizing the report.
- In his letter, he tried to draw a connection between the strike and the factory's declining wages.
How it behaves: In this sense, draw usually takes an abstract noun object such as comparison, conclusion, distinction, or parallel, commonly in the pattern draw a distinction between two things, and sits in a fairly formal, analytical register.
The true synonym
make
Same sentence, swapped: We can make a comparison between the two poems.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- suck
- drag
- program
remove the entrails of
The cook must draw the bird before roasting it.
The true synonym
disembowel
Same sentence, swapped: The cook must disembowel the bird before roasting it.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- tie
- suck
- cream
Where draw turns up in the game
draw is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in six other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 6 puzzles where draw is the trap
- castverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is put, in the sense "formulate in a particular style or language", with draw sitting one tile away.
- planverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is project, in the sense "make or work out a plan for", with draw sitting one tile away.
- screenverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is sort, in the sense "examine in order to test suitability", and draw is one of the three tiles that lose.
- unitnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is whole, in the sense "an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity", and draw is on the board beside it.
Play draw
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so draw reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from thinking and knowing at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
One vocabulary, two jobs
draw is an answer in 2 puzzles and a wrong tile in 6. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.