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What does drawn-out mean?

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Adjective
  1. Protracted, made to take a longer period of time than necessary.
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He dies a slow, drawn-out death, clutching a piece of red material to his chest.
We haven't set a deadline but negotiations are taking place with potential purchasers and we don't expect it to be a long, drawn-out process.
And by this point, the process became so slow and drawn-out that they were ineffective.
Our under-21 team had just two games in the East Kerry competition, which was a drawn-out affair.
Thus, I would pay an even larger premium to prevent cancer than to prevent a less painful or drawn-out cause of death.
Since then, the necessary drawn-out processes added to the personal anguish that he's clearly suffered.

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