DRAW NEAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does draw near mean? 

• DRAW NEAR (verb)
  The verb DRAW NEAR has 1 sense:

1. move towards

  Familiarity information: DRAW NEAR used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRAW NEAR (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move towards

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

approach; come near; come on; draw close; draw near; go up; near

Context example:

The enemy army came nearer and nearer

Hypernyms (to "draw near" is one way to...):

come; come up (move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody)

"Draw near" entails doing...:

advance; go on; march on; move on; pass on; progress (move forward, also in the metaphorical sense)

Verb group:

approach; come near (come near in time)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "draw near"):

drive up (approach while driving)

bear down on; bear down upon (sail towards another vessel, of a ship)

edge in; edge up (push one's way into (a space))

close (draw near)

crowd; push (approach a certain age or speed)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue draw near

 Context examples 

I followed speedily, I hardly knew why; but when the man saw me draw near, he aimed a gun, which he carried, at my body and fired.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Witches have red eyes, and cannot see far, but they have a keen scent like the beasts, and are aware when human beings draw near.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

She was a being apart, so far apart that he did not know how to draw near to her as a lover should draw near.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But he had long since learned that there was such a thing as Chance, or Opportunity, and he continued to draw near.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I asked him what was for his service, and he said he would take rum; but as I was going out of the room to fetch it, he sat down upon a table and motioned me to draw near.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

When Mr. Weston joined the party, however, and when the baby was fetched, there was no longer a want of subject or animation—or of courage and opportunity for Frank Churchill to draw near her and say, I have to thank you, Miss Woodhouse, for a very kind forgiving message in one of Mrs. Weston's letters.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)