as in to spend
to make complete use of
I drew down my bank account just paying for tuition
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In response to intensifying droughts, French authorities have carved giant water storage systems into the countryside for large farms to draw down in dry months.
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Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 7 Aug. 2024
Baltimore has since been approved to draw down $6 million for that year.
—Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 23 Feb. 2024
Resistance typically comes at a cost: The mutations draw down the cellular energy a microbe uses to reproduce.
—Melinda Wenner Moyer, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2016
Seroka, 59, met twice with President Biden, ultimately helping forge a solution that helped draw down the dozens of ships anchored outside the port, a logjam that only exacerbated air quality woes at California’s single largest source of pollution.
—Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
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Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 7 Aug. 2024
Baltimore has since been approved to draw down $6 million for that year.
—Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 23 Feb. 2024
Resistance typically comes at a cost: The mutations draw down the cellular energy a microbe uses to reproduce.
—Melinda Wenner Moyer, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2016
Seroka, 59, met twice with President Biden, ultimately helping forge a solution that helped draw down the dozens of ships anchored outside the port, a logjam that only exacerbated air quality woes at California’s single largest source of pollution.
—Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
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“Draw down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/draw%20down. Accessed 12 Sep. 2024.
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