draw off

draw off
verb
1. remove by drawing or pulling (Freq. 1)
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She placed the tray down and drew off the cloth

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draw away the cloth that is covering the cheese

• Syn: ↑draw away, ↑pull off
• Hypernyms: ↑remove, ↑take, ↑take away, ↑withdraw
• Verb Group: ↑pluck, ↑tweak, ↑pull off, ↑pick off
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

2. remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)
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She drew $2,000 from the account

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

• Syn: ↑withdraw, ↑draw, ↑take out
• Ant: ↑deposit (for: ↑withdraw)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑drawee (for: ↑draw), ↑drawer (for: ↑draw), ↑withdrawer (for: ↑withdraw), ↑withdrawal (for: ↑withdraw)
• Hypernyms: ↑remove, ↑take, ↑take away, ↑withdraw
• Hyponyms:
↑cheque, ↑check out, ↑dip, ↑divert, ↑hive off, ↑overdraw, ↑tap, ↑divest, ↑disinvest
• Verb Group: ↑draw, ↑take out
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Somebody ——s PP

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verb
: to remove especially from an environment or container : withdraw, abstract; often : to extract by distillation
: to move away especially to allow oneself room for action, regrouping, or reconsideration

the enemies' losses forced them to draw off

we drew off from that approach and reexamined the situation

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draw off
1. To cause to flow from a barrel, etc
2. To withdraw
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Main Entry: ↑draw

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ˌdraw ˈoff [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they draw off he/she/it draws off present participle drawing off past tense drew off past participle drawn off] phrasal verb
to take some of the liquid out of something
Thesaurus: to remove or move liquidhyponym
Main entry: draw

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draw off [phrasal verb]
draw off (something) or draw (something) off : to take or remove (something) from a source or supply

They illegally drew off thousands of dollars that had been donated to the charity.

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Main Entry: ↑draw

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