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Meaning of wiredraw | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To stretch (some physical thing) out, as though drawing wire; to elongate.
  2. To stretch (words, a meaning etc.) to suit one's own purpose.

Examples

“I am of opinion that the uncontrouled libertie, that all men have to wrest, dissipate, and wyredraw a word so religious and important, to so many severall idiomes, hath much more danger than profit following it.”
“The vision was, however, so wiredrawn, it was so evident that the nobleman had not got his own consent to the vague something floating in his "mind's eye," that he left her in the dark as to his wishes and intentions beyond the belief that he was determined to seek, in the matrimonial state, that happiness which had hitherto eluded his pursuit,...”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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