Definition of "draw out"

draw out

verb
third-person singular simple present draws out, present participle drawing out, simple past drew out, past participle drawn out
1. To make something last for more time than is necessary; prolong; extend.
2. To physically extract, as blood from a vein.
  Quotations
  Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
  1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […]
3. To extract, bring out, as concealed information; elicit; educe.
4. To use means to entice or force (an animal) from its hole or similar hiding place.
5. (by extension) To cause (a shy person) to be more open or talkative.
6. (poker) To improve a losing hand to a winning hand by receiving additional cards.
7. (obsolete, intransitive) To leave the place (of an army), etc.
  Quotations
  That the Scots Army drew out upon a March, and the English Army drew out to attend them, but could not engage them, by reason of a Bog and great Ditch between the two Armies, only they discharged their great Guns at one another, […]
  1732, Memorials of the English Affairs