"wiredraw" meaning in English

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        "2": "wire",
        "3": "draw"
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      "expansion": "wire + draw",
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  "etymology_text": "From wire + draw.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wiredraws",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wiredrawing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "wiredrew",
      "tags": [
        "past"
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      "form": "wiredrawn",
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        "participle",
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "glosses": [
        "To stretch (some physical thing) out, as though drawing wire; to elongate."
      ],
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          "elongate",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, now rare) To stretch (some physical thing) out, as though drawing wire; to elongate."
      ],
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        "archaic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": ", I.56",
          "text": "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."
        }
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        "To stretch (words, a meaning etc.) to suit one's own purpose."
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        "(transitive, obsolete) To stretch (words, a meaning etc.) to suit one's own purpose."
      ],
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "wire-draw"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "wyredraw"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wiredraw"
}

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  "etymology_text": "From wire + draw.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wiredraws",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wiredrawing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "wiredrew",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wiredrawn",
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        "participle",
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To stretch (some physical thing) out, as though drawing wire; to elongate."
      ],
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          "stretch",
          "stretch"
        ],
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          "elongate",
          "elongate"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, now rare) To stretch (some physical thing) out, as though drawing wire; to elongate."
      ],
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      "examples": [
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          "ref": ", I.56",
          "text": "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."
        }
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        "To stretch (words, a meaning etc.) to suit one's own purpose."
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        "(transitive, obsolete) To stretch (words, a meaning etc.) to suit one's own purpose."
      ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "wire-draw"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "wyredraw"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wiredraw"
}