What does indrawing mean?
Indrawing means An inhalation of breath; an inspiration..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
An inhalation of breath; an inspiration..
But--oh," she added, with a sharp indrawing of her breath, "how I did love him!"
The words came with a fierce hissing indrawing of the speaker's breath.
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.
Use indrawing when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Indrawing means An inhalation of breath; an inspiration..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
But--oh," she added, with a sharp indrawing of her breath, "how I did love him!"
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