Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To draw to one side, as a curtain.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To draw aside or open.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To draw aside or open; to draw back.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To draw aside or open; to
pull back a layer offabric , e.g. acurtain . - verb To clear or erase part of a drawing.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Tallien – I just now observed, that we must undraw the veil.
Newspapers 2007
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Seeing the faint light of early day without, the girl rose to undraw the curtain.
Oliver Twist 2007
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Upon entering the room he felt his limbs tremble, his heart flutter, his tongue falter; he attempted to undraw the curtain, and called for a light to the bedside.
Candide 2007
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There never was any discomfort happened to mortal man, but some little ray of consolation would dart in, if the wretch was not so much a wretch, as to draw, instead of undraw, the curtain, to keep it out.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Emily presently heard his steps descending the stairs within, and then the heavy chain fall, and the bolts undraw of a small postern door, which he opened to admit the party.
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As she surveyed this dismal place, she perceived a door on the opposite side of the stair-case, and, anxious to know whether it would lead her to Madame Montoni, she tried to undraw the bolts, which fastened it.
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Mayhap there'll be something for you to draw-and then undraw-later on.
The Dark Tower King, Stephen 2004
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If the reader blame me for not assisting him to determine this, -- if he ask me why I do not undraw the curtain and disclose the picture, -- I reply in the words of the painter Zeuxis, when the same question was addressed to him, on exhibiting his master-piece of imitative art -- 'The curtain _is_ the picture.'
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various
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I feel the helmet on my head; I wave the standard over it; brave men smile upon me; beautiful maidens pull them gently back by the scarf, and will not let them break my slumber, nor undraw the curtain.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various
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Joseph, who "mainly contributed," with those earnest, honest fingers of his to undraw the royal purse-strings, so that the three granddaughters may now keep the wolf from the door, as their immortal grandfather kept the foe from the "silver-girt isle."
Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921
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