draw out

draw out
    v 1: cause to speak, "Can you draw her out--she is always so
         quiet"
    2: lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer; "We prolonged
       our stay"; "She extended her visit by another day"; "The
       meeting was drawn out until midnight" [syn: {prolong},
       {protract}, {extend}, {draw out}]
    3: make more sociable; "The therapist drew out the shy girl"
    4: deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out
       some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"
       [syn: {educe}, {evoke}, {elicit}, {extract}, {draw out}]
    5: remove as if by suction; "aspirate the wound" [syn:
       {aspirate}, {draw out}, {suck out}]
    6: remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an
       abstract sense; "pull weeds"; "extract a bad tooth"; "take
       out a splinter"; "extract information from the telegram"
       [syn: {extract}, {pull out}, {pull}, {pull up}, {take out},
       {draw out}]
    

100 Moby Thesaurus words for "draw out":
      arouse, avulse, bring forth, bring out, bring to light, call forth,
      call out, call up, chatter, continue, cut out, dawdle, deduce,
      deracinate, derive, dig out, dig up, disentangle, drag out, draw,
      draw forth, dredge, dredge up, dwell on, educe, elicit, elongate,
      eradicate, evoke, evolve, evulse, excavate, excise, exsect, extend,
      extract, extricate, fill out, get from, get out, get out of,
      gouge out, grub up, induce, lengthen, lengthen out, let out,
      linger on, mine, never finish, obtain, pad, perorate, pick out,
      pluck out, pluck up, procrastinate, procure, produce, prolong,
      prolongate, protract, pull, pull out, pull up, quarry, rake out,
      remove, rip out, root out, root up, rouse, run out, secure,
      speak at length, spin out, stimulate, strain, stretch, stretch out,
      string out, summon forth, summon up, take out, tauten, tear out,
      temporize, tense, tighten, unearth, unravel, uproot, wangle,
      wangle out of, weed out, winkle out, withdraw, worm out,
      worm out of, wrest out