DRAWN UP Synonyms: 149 Similar and Opposite Words

drawn up

verb

Definition of drawn up next

past participle of draw up

as in checked

to bring (something) to a standstill he drew up his horse outside the tavern

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as in organized

to put into a particular arrangement drew up the troops into a line along the ridge

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as in composed

to put (something) into proper and usually carefully worked out written form draw up a proposal and submit it to the committee for approval

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Recent Examples of drawn up Wish lists are being drawn up with urgency, led by industry heads pressing for clear action in the first 100 days. —

Mayu Saini, Sourcing Journal, 16 Feb. 2026 When serious plans were drawn up for the conquest of space in the late 1940s by the likes of Werner Von Braun, the question of astronauts had a simple and obvious answer – of course they'd be needed. —

New Atlas, 15 Feb. 2026 This is a far more reliable blueprint for a party’s resurrection than anything drawn up at a think tank. —

Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026 That followed reports that Epstein left the children of Juul and her husband, Terje Rød-Larsen, $10 million in a will drawn up shortly before his death by suicide in a New York prison in 2019. —

Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2026 Ellie Pavlick, a computer scientist at Brown, has drawn up a taxonomy of our most common responses. —

Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026 Juul has been suspended as Norway’s ambassador to Jordan after revelations including the fact that Epstein left the couple’s children $10 million in a will drawn up shortly before his death by suicide in a New York prison in 2019. —

Jill Lawless, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2026 The city has drawn up plans to expand the airport — which does not have scheduled passenger flights, but houses flight schools and hosts corporate and private jets — by extending a runway to accommodate larger airplanes. —

Richard Webner, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Feb. 2026 The first official rules of curling were drawn up in Scotland and adopted by the Grand Caledonian Curling Club – which became the sport’s governing body – in 1838. —

Ben Morse, CNN Money, 4 Feb. 2026

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The decision was a major blow to Trump, who has invested so much political capital in his tariffs and has rarely seen his power checked during his second term.

— Jonathan Lemire, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2026
With the game out of reach, 5-1 in Canada’s favor, Fiala was checked by Tom Wilson as his skate became entangled with the boards.

— Andrew Knoll, Daily News, 23 Feb. 2026