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🧲 To attract people 😮‍💨 To inhale 🦵 To curl up 🎣 To pull inward 🔄 To approach closely 🚆 To arrive
to draw in

to draw in

4.3
Arrive at a station
  • phrasal verb
  • /drɔ ɪn/
translation icon : entrar en la estación

Examples

  • After harvesting, as the days drew in, Rufina moved the pen inside.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Observe the data line I drew in Figure 10(a).

    Academic text (2000)

  • Group leaders may need to carefully structure the group and intervene to cut down on monopolizers, draw in those who are silent, and minimize interruptions and hostile and inappropriate remarks.

    Academic text (1997)

  • The train will draw in at Platform 3 at 10:15 AM.

  • As the scheduled time approached, we could see the train draw in to the station.

  • The announcement alerted passengers that the next train would draw in shortly.

Synonyms

to get in
vsto draw in
96 1.3

To arrive at a station, like a train or bus

is used only for trains arriving at stations rather than other vehicles
to pull in
vsto draw in
19 3.1

To arrive at a station and stop there

is the general arrival at a station without stressing the stop
to draw up
vsto draw in
5 3.6

To stop a vehicle at a place

is about arriving at a station rather than stopping anywhere

Antonyms

to depart
176 1.3

To leave a place to start a journey

How Near

to draw in
4.3
to approach
532 2.1

Surface Forms

draw in infinitive
drawing in present participle
draws in third person singular
drew in past
drawn in past participle

Morphology

draw + in

The meaning 'to attract or engage' is directly derivable from combining 'draw' (to pull/attract) with the directional particle 'in' (toward/into): together they yield the sense 'pull in' or 'bring in' people/attention. This verb+particle composition follows a standard, cross-linguistically common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will likely infer the MWE meaning.

Etymology

Draw in comes from the image of a train being pulled into a station platform: draw 'pull' and in 'into the platform', as the train comes alongside and stops. So it means 'to arrive at a station'.