Draw (irregular verb)

'To draw' is an irregular verb. Its forms are given here:

Base form	past tense	-ed participle	Remarks
draw	drew	drawn	also withdraw

This is one of the "the 250 or so irregular verbs" listed in Quirk 1985. The list "contains most of the irregular verbs in present-day English ... but is not meant to be exhaustive, particularly with regard to derivative verbs." AWE has copied most of the entries in that list. The verb 'to draw' belongs to Quirk's Class 4 B d

You may be interested to see also Draw - drawer and Draft - draught, the latter to illustrate how the forms of this word have changed during the history of English. Around 1,000 CE, the table above might have read:

Base form	past tense	-ed participle	Remarks
draʒe or drache	dróg or dróh	dragen or draȝen

and by the 14th century:

Base form	past tense	-ed participle	Remarks
draȝh-, drach-, drach-, drah-. or drauȝ-	droȝ, droȝh, droh or drohh, drou or drow	draȝen, draghen or drauen

You may also like to see AWE's article on draw (meanings).