drawaway (third-person singular simple presentdraws away,present participledrawing away,simple pastdrew away,past participledrawn away)
- (intransitive) Tomoveaway.
1918 September–November,Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, inThe Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp.,→OCLC; republished as chapter VIII, inHugo Gernsback, editor,Amazing Stories,(please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.:Experimenter Publishing,1927,→OCLC:She looked at me and then turned and glanced at my arm about her, and then she seemed quite suddenly to realize the scantiness of her apparel anddrew away, covering her face with her palms and blushing furiously.
- (transitive) Tolead away, or cause to move away, byluring.
1980,AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd., page53:An almost 19th-century atmosphere has returned to Beetham since the M6 motorwaydrew away the traffic which used to roar along its main street.
