Drawled vs Brawled - What's the difference?
drawled | brawled |
(drawl)
To drag on slowly and heavily; while or dawdle away time indolently.
To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance.
To move slowly and heavily; move in a dull, slow, lazy mannner.
To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest.
* Landor
a way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together. Characteristic of some .
(brawl)
To engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel.
To complain loudly; to scold.
To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones.
* Wordsworth
As verbs the difference between drawled and brawled
is that drawled is past tense of drawl while brawled is past tense of brawl.drawled
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *drawl
English
Verb
- Theologians and moralists talk mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it.
Noun
(en noun)See also
* brogue * lilt * lisp * twangbrawled
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*brawl
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(wikipedia brawl)Verb
(en verb)- where the brook brawls along the painful road