draw out
     v 1: cause to speak, "Can you draw her out--she is always so
          quiet"
     2: lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer; "We prolonged
        our stay"; "She extended her visit by another day"; "The
        meeting was drawn out until midnight" [syn: {prolong}, {protract},
         {extend}]
     3: make more sociable; "The therapist drew out the shy girl"
     4: deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out
        some interesting linguistic data from the native
        informant" [syn: {educe}, {evoke}, {elicit}, {extract}]
     5: draw or pull out, usually with some force or effort; also
        used in an abstract sense; "pull weeds"; "extract a bad
        tooth"; "take out a splinter"; "extract information from
        the telegram" [syn: {extract}, {pull out}, {pull}, {pull
        up}, {take out}]
Source: WordNet® 2.0