Indrawing

Quick meaning: Indrawing is a noun meaning An inhalation of breath; an inspiration.

Meaning

An inhalation of breath; an inspiration.

More Meanings

1. The drawing inward of anything.

Example Sentences

The words came with a fierce hissing indrawing of the speaker's breath.

But--oh," she added, with a sharp indrawing of her breath, "how I did love him!"

But the only outward expression they gained was a throwing back of the head, and a deep indrawing of the breath, followed by the quite uninspired exclamation, "Holloa, there's the ocean!"

Watt saw the little movements of the stuff, the little bulgings and crumplings, and the sudden indrawings, where it was nipped, between forefinger and thumb probably, for those are the nippers.

Word Forms

• indrawings

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inbreath, inhalation, respiration, afflation, exhaling, breath.

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