draw away

1. 1.

   move ahead of (one's competitors) in a race

   Broaderlead
2. 2.

   remove by drawing or pulling

   “She placed the tray down and drew off the cloth”

   “draw away the cloth that is covering the cheese”

   Synonymsdraw offpull off

   Broaderremove

Questions about draw away

What does draw away mean?

draw away means "move ahead of (one's competitors) in a race". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for draw away?

Close synonyms include draw off, pull off. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is draw away a common word?

draw away is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.