undraw

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ draw.

Verb

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undraw (third-person singular simple present undraws, present participle undrawing, simple past undrew, past participle undrawn)

  1. (transitive) To draw aside or open; to pull back a layer of fabric, e.g. a curtain.
    She undrew the curtain to reveal the shining rays of the sun.
  2. (transitive) To clear or erase part of a drawing.
    Hyponym: unplot
    • 1992, Adrian Nye, XLIB Programming Manual, Rel. 5, page 205:
      It is easy to highlight graphics on a monochrome system. The simplest way is to set the GC to the GXxor logical function and draw your graphics once to draw them and again to undraw them.

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Antonyms

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  • (antonym(s) of draw aside): draw
  • (antonym(s) of erase drawing): draw

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