outdraw

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To extract or draw out.
  2. To remove a gun from its holster, and fire it, faster than another.
    — Well maybe there's a God above, but all I've ever learned from love, was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you.
  3. To attract a larger crowd than.
  4. To draw better than; to surpass in creating drawn artworks.
    — Certainly he could outdraw just about anybody, and he knew how to tell a story, seamlessly weaving words and pictures together.

词形变化

outdraws present,singular,third-person outdrawing participle,present outdrew past outdrawn participle,past

词源

From Middle English outdrauen, outdrawen, from Old English ūtdragan, from Proto-Germanic *ūtdraganą. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uutdreege, West Frisian útdrage (“to carry out”), Dutch uitdragen (“to carry out”), German austragen (“to deal with; deliver”), Icelandic útdraga (“to extract; draw out”). By surface analysis, out- + draw.
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