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Meaning : Cause to speak.
Example : Can you draw her out--she is always so quiet.
Meaning : Lengthen in time. Cause to be or last longer.
Example : We prolonged our stay. She extended her visit by another day. The meeting was drawn out until midnight.
Synonyms : extend, prolong, protract
Meaning : Make more sociable.
Example : The therapist drew out the shy girl.
Meaning : Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning).
Example : We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant.
Synonyms : educe, elicit, evoke, extract
Meaning : Remove by suction.
Example : Aspirate the wound.
Synonyms : aspirate, suck out
Meaning : Remove, usually with some force or effort. Also used in an abstract sense.
Example : Pull weeds. Extract a bad tooth. Take out a splinter. Extract information from the telegram.
Synonyms : extract, pull, pull out, pull up, rip out, take out, tear out
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