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indrawing

noun

Etymology

From in- + drawing.

  1. derived from *draganą✻ — “to draw; pull”
  2. inherited from *dragandz✻ — “drawing”
  3. inherited from dragende
  4. inherited from drauinge
  5. prefixed as indrawing — “in + drawing”

Definitions

  1. An inhalation of breath

    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!"

  2. The drawing inward of anything.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for indrawing. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA