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Mirmohamad Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

"draw" meaning

"Egypt’s treatment of journalists in the country has drawn protests from organisations such as Reporters without Borders."
Could you please interpret the meaning of "draw" in sentence above.
  

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you mean it means"Get knowledge and get idea from some thing"?, in other words it means "the protests get idea and get feeling and information from Reporter Without Border organisation because of Egypt court's treatment.
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No

"Egypt’s treatment of journalists in the country (subject) has drawn (verb) protests (object) from organisations such as Reporters without Borders."

The treatment has drawn/pulled/extracted/brought forth protests from various organisations. The organisations have protes
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mirmohamadEgypt’s treatment of journalists in the country has drawn protests from organisations such as Reporters without Borders.
drawn ~ elicited, caused, brought about

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