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drawn  (drôn)
v.
Past participle of draw.
adj.
Haggard, as from fatigue or ill health: a wan, drawn face.

drawn
Verb
the past participle of draw
Adjective
haggard, tired, or tense in appearance
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Adj.1.drawndrawn - showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens
tired - depleted of strength or energy; "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat"
2.drawn - having the curtains or draperies closed or pulled shut; "the drawn draperies kept direct sunlight from fading the rug"
closed - not open or affording passage or access; "the many closed streets made travel difficult"; "our neighbors peeped from behind closed curtains"

drawn
Translations
Spanish drawn [drɔːn] pp of draw
adj (= haggard) (with tiredness) → ojeroso: (with pain) → macilento

French drawn [drɔːn] pp of draw
adj (= haggard) → tiré(e)crispé(e)

German drawn [drɔːn] draw pp of draw
adjabgespannt

Italian drawn [drɔːn] pp of draw
adj (= haggard) (with tiredness) → tirato/a: (with pain) → contratto/a (dal dolore)

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IN youth I have known one with whom the Earth In secret communing held-as he with it, In daylight, and in beauty, from his birth: Whose fervid, flickering torch of life was lit From the sun and stars, whence he had drawn forth A passionate light such for his spirit was fit And yet that spirit knew-not in the hour Of its own fervor-what had o'er it power.
It lies among those low spurs of the Alleghanies which cover the midland counties of New York, and it is a little east of a meridional line drawn through the centre of the State.
Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn by the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
 
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