drawing off

1. 1.

   act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source

   “the drawing of water from the well”

   Synonymsdrawing

   Broaderdrain

   Narrowerderivation

Questions about drawing off

What does drawing off mean?

drawing off means "act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source".

What is another word for drawing off?

Close synonyms include drawing. 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 drawing off a common word?

drawing off is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.