draw out


draw out (http://definr.com/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]
     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]
     5: draw or pull out, 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]