Enlighten vs Drawl - What's the difference?
enlighten | drawl | Related terms |
To supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth.
To make clear to the intellect or conscience; to shed the light of truth and knowledge upon; to furnish with increase of knowledge; to instruct; as, to enlighten the mind or understanding.
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 .
Enlighten is a related term of drawl.
As verbs the difference between enlighten and drawl
is that enlighten is to supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth while drawl is to drag on slowly and heavily; while or dawdle away time indolently.As a noun drawl is
a way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together characteristic of some.enlighten
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* endarkendrawl
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- Theologians and moralists talk mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it.