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Drawled vs Trawled - What's the difference?

drawled | trawled |

As verbs the difference between drawled and trawled

is that drawled is (drawl) while trawled is (trawl).

drawled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (drawl)
  • Anagrams

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    drawl

    English

    Verb

  • 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
  • Theologians and moralists talk mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together. Characteristic of some .
  • See also

    * brogue * lilt * lisp * twang

    trawled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (trawl)

  • trawl

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A net or dragnet used for trawling.
  • A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline.
  • Derived terms

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl.
  • To fish from a slow moving boat.
  • To make an exhaustive search for something within a defined area.