DREW UP Synonyms: 147 Similar and Opposite Words

drew up

verb

Definition of drew up next

past tense of draw up

as in stopped

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

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as in classified

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

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as in prepared

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 drew up The companies, working with Oz Architecture, drew up plans for a 17-story tower with about 400 units. —

Thomas Gounley, Denver Post, 18 Apr. 2026 Behind the scenes, her military reportedly drew up plans to blow up airfields in the event of an American invasion. —

Nikhil Kumar, Time, 15 Apr. 2026 So Lee drew up a play that spread the floor for Ball and gave him a chance to isolate against a defender in the middle of the floor. —

Doug Haller, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2026 Saiyub's mother even drew up a chair. —

Diaa Hadid, NPR, 10 Apr. 2026 In the 1980s, the area was eyed as a potential world headquarters for Apple and, in the 1990s, Cisco drew up a similar proposal. —

Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026 The man who drew up the game-winning play in the College Football Playoff National Championship game for Indiana almost never went into football at all. —

Bob Pompeani, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026 After Ike’s dunk got the Zags within 69-68 with 40 seconds left, Miller called timeout and drew up a play that got Heide free in the corner. —

Anne M. Peterson, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026 Liberal Democrat lawmaker Liam McArthur, who drew up the Scottish bill, had urged colleagues to back it. —

Jill Lawless The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 19 Mar. 2026

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To encompass the story, about a miracle from 847, when Pope Leo IV stopped a fire with a blessing, Raphael brings you into the fresco through the unshod feet of a woman in agony and leaves you near the very back, with a tiny and serene Leo IV.

— Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
If the game stopped at this point, Fermat’s method for dividing the pot would list all possible outcomes of those five coin flips and then tally the ones that amassed 10 points for each player.

— Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 19 Apr. 2026