English Dictionary

wiredraw

verb

(transitive, now rare) To stretch (some physical thing) out, as though drawing wire; to elongate. / (transitive, obsolete) To stretch (words, a meaning etc.) to suit one's own purpose.

She wiredraws the situation to make it seem worse than it actually is.

意味（1）

(transitive, now rare) To stretch (some physical thing) out, as though drawing wire; to elongate.

意味（2）

(transitive, obsolete) To stretch (words, a meaning etc.) to suit one's own purpose.

, I.56:

, I.56: I am of opinion that the uncontrouled libertie, that all men have to wrest, dissipate, and wyredraw a word so religious and important, to so many severall idiomes, hath much more danger than profit following it.