draft

draft

verb

Definition of DRAFT

1

to pick especially for required military service <my grandfather was drafted to fight in a war that he opposed>

Synonyms conscribe, conscript, levy

Related Words impress, press; enlist, enroll (also enrol), recruit; call up; sign up, volunteer

Near Antonyms discharge, muster out

2

to put (something) into proper and usually carefully worked out written form <draft a letter to the local newspaper giving your views on the problem>

Synonyms cast, craft, draft, draw up, formulate, frame, prepare

Related Words fabricate, fashion, form, mold, sculpture, shape; couch, express, phrase, state, verbalize, word; author, indite, pen, write; conceive, concoct, devise; build, construct, make; assemble, compound, piece (together); redraft, reformulate, reframe

3

to remove (liquid) gradually or completely <remember to draft the water from the pool so that we can close it up for the winter>

Synonyms bleed, draft, draw (off), pump, siphon (also syphon), tap

Related Words milk; suck; clear, empty, evacuate, exhaust, vacate, vacuate, void; decant, effuse; deplete; clean, flush, purge

Near Antonyms bathe, douse (also dowse), drench, soak, souse, wash, water, wet; deluge, drown, flood, inundate, overflow; submerge, swamp

Antonyms fill