if a vehicle draws up, it arrives at a place and stops
to move your chair so that you are sitting closer to someone or something
to prepare and write something such as a document or plan
to stand up very straight so that you look as tall as possible, because you want to impress or frighten someone
A taxi drew up outside the hotel.
Guidelines have been drawn up for dealing with emergencies.
Health chiefs are drawing up plans to increase them.
Once that hurdle has been cleared, detailed designs will be drawn up for approval.
The security regime is detailed in a set of regulations that was drawn up in 2002.
Together they began drawing up plans for their first home.
draws up
drawing up
drew up
drawn up
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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