DRAW OFF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does draw off mean? 

• DRAW OFF (verb)
  The verb DRAW OFF has 2 senses:

1. remove by drawing or pulling

2. remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)

  Familiarity information: DRAW OFF used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRAW OFF (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove by drawing or pulling

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

draw away; draw off; pull off

Context example:

draw away the cloth that is covering the cheese

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

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Verb group:

pick off; pluck; pull off; tweak (pull or pull out sharply)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

draw; draw off; take out; withdraw

Context example:

The doctors drew medical supplies from the hospital's emergency bank

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

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Verb group:

draw; take out (take liquid out of a container or well)

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

check out; cheque (withdraw money by writing a check)

dip (take a small amount from)

divert; hive off (withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions)

overdraw (draw more money from than is available)

tap (draw from or dip into to get something)

disinvest; divest (reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

Because we shall have nightfall to cover us when we draw off, so that we may make our way back through the mountains.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And one of the robbers saw that there was a gold ring still left on her finger, and as it was difficult to draw off, he took a hatchet and cut off her finger; but the finger sprang into the air and fell behind the great cask into my lap.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Nay, said Sir Nigel, I have a plan by which we may attempt some small deed upon them, and yet, by the help of God, may be able to draw off again; which, as Sir Simon Burley hath said, would be scarce possible in any other way.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)