From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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]