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Collocations for draw - noun

ADJECTIVE

goalless, scoreless
one-all, three-three, etc.
creditable, honorable
disappointing
consecutive, successive
Hull City were held to a second successive draw.

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VERB + draw

end in
The game ended in a two-all draw.
earn, get, secure, snatch
force, hold sb to
San Marino held them to a goalless draw.

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PREPOSITION

draw against, draw with
their 1–1 draw with United

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Collocations for draw - verb

1. make pictures

ADVERB

accurately, beautifully, carefully, clearly, well
a beautifully drawn picture
He draws very well.
badly, crudely, quickly, roughly
a crudely drawn child's face

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2. pull

ADVERB

half, partly
The blinds were partly drawn.
back
She drew back the curtains and let the sunlight in.
aside, to one side
I tried to draw him aside so I could talk to him in private.
away
He approached her but she drew away.
up
She sat with her legs drawn up on the sofa.
out
The ducts draw out stale air.
together (figurative)
The project enables students to draw together their skills and experience.
randomly
We drew names randomly out of a hat.

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PREPOSITION

onto
She drew me onto the balcony
out of
He drew the cork out of the bottle.
to
I drew my chair up to the fire.
towards/toward

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3. attract

ADVERB

immediately
inevitably, inexorably, irresistibly
Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.
instinctively
Animals are instinctively drawn to those who like them.
increasingly
He was increasingly drawn to the idea of making short films.

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PREPOSITION

from
The plan has drawn interest from local businessmen.
to
We asked the surfing champion what first drew him to the sport.

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draw on/upon sth - PHRASAL VERB

ADVERB

heavily
The novelist draws heavily on her personal experiences.

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Draw is used with these nouns as the subject:
artist, chimney, footstep

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Draw is used with these nouns as the object:
admiration, analogy, angle, applause, arrow, attention, audience, bath, baton, beer, benefit, blade, blind, blood, border, boundary, bow, breath, caricature, cart, cartoon, character, cheque, chuckle, circle, cloak, comfort, comment, comparison, conclusion, condemnation, connection, consolation, contrast, criticism, cross, crowd, curtain, customer, dagger, diagram, distinction, district, dole, drape, encouragement, example, finger, fire, foul, game, glance, graph, gun, idea, immigrant, implication, inference, inspiration, interest, knife, laugh, laughter, lesson, likeness, line, map, match, moisture, moral, nourishment, opposition, outline, parallel, pension, picture, pint, pistol, plan, plough, portrait, praise, raffle, rebuke, response, retort, revolver, salary, sample, shade, shape, shawl, shopper, sign, sketch, spectator, strength, support, suspicion, sword, tourist, traffic, triangle, truncheon, veil, viewer, visitor, wagon, weapon, wrath

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