WordNet
n. act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source; "the drawing of water from the well" [syn: drawing]
Usage examples of "drawing off".
He made a gesture that was faintly suggestive of the drawing off of a rubber band.
She stood in the centre of the great room, drawing off her riding-gloves, perturbed and frightened beyond all reason at finding herself for the first time under Mr.
Aunt Pol said, going to the barrel and drawing off a tankard of foamy beer for him.
His men were drawing off to one side with him, except for the ones he'd sent forward to get the tribal levy out of the way—.
Garreth eased the small drawing off her board and laid it gently on one of the few clear spaces on the bed.
He turned back to the landscape and was in the process of drawing off his jacket when he saw Christina.
She was drawing off her knitted red and green mittens and getting the ends of her muffler tangled in her eternal knitting, which, clotted with ice, was still in its basket under her arm.
You let me pretty well wear myself out, drawing off that vixen from Lindeth, and it's my belief you knew all along that he was tired of her!