Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

indrawing

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-draw-ing
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An inhalation of breath; an inspiration.

noun

The drawing inward of anything.

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

From in- + drawing.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: in

Inflected Forms

indrawings (plural)

Questions

What does indrawing mean?: An inhalation of breath; an inspiration.
Where does indrawing come from?: From in- + drawing.

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