Open English Wordnet
Verbs
(v)draw outcause to speak“Can you draw her out — she is always so quiet” (v)prolong, protract, extend, draw outlengthen 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” (v)draw outmake more sociable“The therapist drew out the shy girl” (v)educe, evoke, elicit, extract, draw outdeduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)“We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant” (v)extract, pull out, pull, pull up, take out, draw out, rip out, tear outremove, 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”