Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to drawl
Participle: drawled
Gerund: drawling
Indicative
Present
| I | drawl |
| you | drawl |
| he;she;it | drawls |
| we | drawl |
| you | drawl |
| they | drawl |
Perfect
| I | have drawled |
| you | have drawled |
| he;she;it | has drawled |
| we | have drawled |
| you | have drawled |
| they | have drawled |
Past
| I | drawled |
| you | drawled |
| he;she;it | drawled |
| we | drawled |
| you | drawled |
| they | drawled |
Pluperfect
| I | had drawled |
| you | had drawled |
| he;she;it | had drawled |
| we | had drawled |
| you | had drawled |
| they | had drawled |
Future
| I | will drawl |
| you | will drawl |
| he;she;it | will drawl |
| we | will drawl |
| you | will drawl |
| they | will drawl |
Future Perfect
| I | will have drawled |
| you | will have drawled |
| he;she;it | will have drawled |
| we | will have drawled |
| you | will have drawled |
| they | will have drawled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | drawl |
| you | drawl |
| he;she;it | drawl |
| we | drawl |
| you | drawl |
| they | drawl |
Perfect
| I | have drawled |
| you | have drawled |
| he;she;it | have drawled |
| we | have drawled |
| you | have drawled |
| they | have drawled |
Imperfect
| I | drawled |
| you | drawled |
| he;she;it | drawled |
| we | drawled |
| you | drawled |
| they | drawled |
Pluperfect
| I | had drawled |
| you | had drawled |
| he;she;it | had drawled |
| we | had drawled |
| you | had drawled |
| they | had drawled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would drawl |
| you | would drawl |
| he;she;it | would drawl |
| we | would drawl |
| you | would drawl |
| they | would drawl |
Perfect
| I | would have drawled |
| you | would have drawled |
| he;she;it | would have drawled |
| we | would have drawled |
| you | would have drawled |
| they | would have drawled |
Imperative
| you | drawl |
| we | Let's drawl |
| you | drawl |
Verbs conjugated like 'drawl'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'drawl'
brawl,
crawl,
drail,
draw,
trawl,
wrawl,
bawl,
brail,
brawn,
craal,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1597, probably from M.Du.
dralen, E.Fris.
draulen "to linger, delay," apparently an intensive of the root of draw.
2. From a modern frequentative form of draw, equivalent to draw + -le. Compare draggle. Compare also Dutch dralen (“to drag out, delay, linger, tarry, dawdle”), Old Danish dravle (“to linger, loiter”), Icelandic dralla (“to loiter, linger”). See: Dutch '
dralen', Icelandic '
dralla'.
Sample Sentences
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Tush, tush, Tarleton, Kemp, nor Singer, nor all the litter of Fooles that now come drawling behinde them, neuer plaid the Clownes more naturally then the arrantest Sot of you all, shall, if hee will but boyle my Instructions in his brainepan. [1609, Thomas Dekker, The guls horne-booke, pages 3-4:]
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Looke what leysure the old bearded Bawd takes / How softly she goes / How one leg comes drawling after another / Now she has her money, her armes are broken. [1631, Fernando de Rojas, The Spanish bavvd, represented in Celestina …, page 36:]
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talk sometimes a pestilence , and sometimes a hero , mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it [1828, Walter Savage Landor, “Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:]