undraw

English

Etymology

un- +‎ draw

Verb

undraw (third-person singular simple present undraws, present participle undrawing, simple past undrew, past participle undrawn)

1. (transitive) To draw aside or open; to pull back a layer of fabric, e.g. a curtain.

   She undrew the curtain to reveal the shining rays of the sun.

2. (transitive) To clear or erase part of a drawing.

   Hyponym: unplot

   • 1992, Adrian Nye, XLIB Programming Manual, Rel. 5, page 205:

     It is easy to highlight graphics on a monochrome system. The simplest way is to set the GC to the GXxor logical function and draw your graphics once to draw them and again to undraw them.

Synonyms

• (draw aside): draw

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “draw aside”): draw
• (antonym(s) of “erase drawing”): draw

Anagrams

• durwan