to draw attention
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2.5
- phrasal verb
- /drɔː əˈtɛnʃən/
- I wanted to draw attention to us.
- draw attention to the fact
- way to draw attention
- draw attention away
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Watch on YouTubeAnd these young men wanted to draw attention to their cause.
- And these young men wanted to draw attention to their cause.
- No, no, he, he draws attention by sowing chaos, conflict.
- I just want to draw attention to the problems that I see.
- vendor who set himself on fire to draw attention to his plight.
- That's the goal to draw attention to these these great living thinkers.
- That it's hubris or bad form for us to draw attention to ourselves.
- I think they, they don't want to cause anything to draw attention to my accusations.
- I'm a pretty, like modest person and I don't try to draw attention to myself.
- For some reason, the people who work on quantum things don't like to draw attention to that quantum metrology.
- And the best way to draw attention on Twitter is by sharing your video thumbnail.
- He doesn't draw attention to it, nor does he spend any time explaining it.
- In other words, don't draw attention to yourself because that is not what we're interested in.
- When you take a sip of your drink, it engages your lips so it draws attention to them.
Examples
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And these young men wanted to draw attention to their cause.
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That's the goal to draw attention to these these great living thinkers.
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I just want to draw attention to the problems that I see.
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Their job is to draw attention away from it.
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And anything you can do to draw attention to your mouth is good.
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Do not, I repeat, do not draw attention to yourself.
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We don't want to draw attention to ourselves.
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I like the way they sit in the street; they don't draw attention to themselves.
Academic text (2011) -
But suddenly the thought annoyed him; he had no wish to draw attention to himself.
Fiction book (2001) -
The charity event aims to draw attention to the need for more volunteers.
Synonyms
∞
1.8
To tell someone about something important or show it to them
936
1.9
Make people notice or want something
859
2.1
Attract people or attention to something
321
3.7
To show that something is very important
189
1.0
To make someone want to know more about something
103
2.7
Attract someone's attention because it is interesting or noticeable
85
3.7
Make someone understand something they did not know before
69
2.6
Tell many people about something so they know it exists
68
3.5
To attract people or attention
56
3.6
Attract people or attention
53
3.5
To help more people know about a problem or cause
52
2.9
To make people notice something important
51
3.4
To attract and hold someone's strong interest or attention
46
4.0
Make something known to many people using news or social media
38
2.8
Make someone notice you or something
23
3.2
To attract and keep people's interest
23
3.3
Make someone notice something quickly and feel interested
17
4.0
To make a person or thing noticed by people
16
3.0
Makes people look and pay attention
16
3.0
To get noticed and make people interested
10
3.9
To make people look at or listen to you
2
3.8
To make someone feel curious about something and want to know more
1
3.2
To tell many people about something so they know it
1
5.1
Give public attention to a person or issue, often in the news
Make someone notice something
Antonyms
How Noticeable
- Informal
15
3.7
23
3.3
152
2.5
16
3.0
- Informal
1
6.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to make people notice' is directly compositional from 'draw' (to pull in/attract) + 'attention' (notice or focus), so the overall sense follows straightforwardly from the parts. This agentive + noun collocation is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English composition patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The phrase draw attention uses the image of draw meaning 'pull' and attention as what people notice. So it is like pulling people's eyes toward something and means 'to attract notice'.