DRAWN DOWN Synonyms: 64 Similar and Opposite Words

drawn down

verb

past participle of draw down

as in spent

to make complete use of I drew down my bank account just paying for tuition

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Recent Examples of drawn down Boomers also spent decades paying payroll taxes that built up the trust fund surplus now being drawn down to help cover the shortfall. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026 Moscow has progressively drawn down the readily-fungible assets of its National Wealth Fund to cover wartime expenses and ballooning budget deficits. — Ilan Berman, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026 Europe came into the spring with gas storage at its lowest starting point in four years, drawn down by a cold winter and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. — John Kerry, semafor.com, 23 July 2026 The Strategic Petroleum Reserve, America’s emergency stockpile of oil, has been drawn down significantly since the war broke out to help replace all those barrels of oil lost in the strait. — David Goldman, CNN Money, 8 July 2026 Those reservoirs will begin to be drawn down this summer, however, particularly if there are significant heat waves that increase water demand for irrigation. — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 11 June 2026 The reservoir, which is operated by Denver Water, is being drawn down for the summer, to redirect water to another reservoir where less will be lost to evaporation. — Evan Bush, NBC news, 2 June 2026 Strategic petroleum reserves have also been released and commercial inventories drawn down, the CEO said. — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 1 May 2026 Stockpiles have been drawn down. — Thomas Wright, The Atlantic, 1 May 2026

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Verb

While they’ve been spotted enjoying glitzy dinners and events in historic villas with friends in Saint-Tropez and Capri, really, the Clooneys have spent most of the summer at their home on Lake Como.

— Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 28 Aug. 2026
Instead, he’s spent August anxiously watching the orange skies from his house in the northern Nevada hills through two consecutive and adjacent wild-land fires, the Bug and Hawk Fires.

— Anya Kamenetz, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of spent

Verb

One example of this messaging disconnect played out on the Upper West Side, in the Democratic primary for the 69th Assembly District.

— Bradley Honan, New York Daily News, 28 June 2026
Scenes like these have played out across the country as America celebrates its 250th birthday and more people look for ways to take part.

— Jennifer Ludden, NPR, 27 June 2026

Definition of played out

Verb

Once the sugars are largely used up, different bacteria take charge and start breaking down the small amounts of protein and amino acids in the flesh, producing ammonia gas as a byproduct.

— Anne Wolf, Martha Stewart, 14 Aug. 2026
Any oxygen produced below Earth’s surface was long assumed to rapidly get used up.

— James Dinneen, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of used up

Verb

Social Security’s retirement trust fund is projected to be depleted in 2032, with the combined retirement and disability trust funds exhausted by around 2033 or 2034.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026
The result was a landscape repeatedly cleared and exhausted for cotton and other cash crops.

— The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 Aug. 2026