draw apart

draw apart

1. To move away from someone or something. I hugged my parents for as long as I could before the train whistle blew and we all drew apart.
2. To move something away from something else. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "draw" and "apart." I drew apart several socks that had gotten stuck together in the dryer.
See also: apart, draw
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

draw something apart

to pull something, such as curtains or drapes, open or apart. She drew the curtains apart and looked out the window. She drew apart the curtains a little bit.
See also: apart, draw

draw apart (from someone or something)

 and draw away (from someone or something)
to pull back or away from someone or something. Don't draw apart from the rest of us. Please don't draw away from me. I won't bite. She drew away slowly and left the room.
See also: apart, draw
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • draw away
  • draw away from (someone or something)
  • on board
  • blow the whistle
  • blow the whistle (on) (someone or something)
  • blow the whistle on
  • blow the whistle on someone/something
  • line up against
  • blow the whistle (on) (someone), to
  • blow (one) to (something)
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Over 200 years ago Alexis de Tocqueville warned of an American individualism that led some to sever themselves from the larger community and "draw apart with his family and his friends." The Sopranos offers a striking example of how monstrous such worship of the family can be.
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Jackson will watch the return with Chippenham, who are third in the Southern Premier, and is happy with the draw apart from it being away.
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A year or so later, it started to draw apart. It's also true with the Iraq War.
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Individualism is a mature and calm feeling, which disposes each member of the community to sever himself from the mass of his fellow-creatures, and to draw apart with his family and friends.' That individualism, first reported by de Tocqueville in Democracy in America in 1835, has persisted and flourished in ways that have not only profoundly shaped national and global politics but also significantly influenced patterns of patronage and the making of architecture in America.
Frontier Visions. (Comment)
A few years later, Tocqueville described individualism as a new social philosophy that "disposes each member of the community to sever himself from the mass of his fellows and to draw apart with his family and friends." It was, in other words, a deliberate withdrawal from the responsibilities of citizenship.
Reclaiming the Public Self. (The Periodical Observer - Society)