Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Drawn in or inward.
- adjective Introverted; withdrawn.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Drawn in; introverted; manifesting or indicative of mental abstraction or introspection: as, an indrawn look.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Drawn in.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having been drawn in.
- adjective Quiet, introspective.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective tending to reserve or introspection
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Examples
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The eyes, slow of movement and heavy-lidded, were almost expressionless under the shaggy, indrawn brows.
A PIECE OF STEAK 2010
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It was those weeping indrawn breaths that got you, ripping away your composure the way a crying baby summons panic, some involuntary response to the sound of another human body in anguish.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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The eyes, slow of movement and heavy-lidded, were almost expressionless under the shaggy, indrawn brows.
A PIECE OF STEAK 2010
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It was those weeping indrawn breaths that got you, ripping away your composure the way a crying baby summons panic, some involuntary response to the sound of another human body in anguish.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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“Omigod,” he heard her whisper on an indrawn breath, which was quickly followed by a strangled hiccup.
Dragon Warrior Janet Chapman 2010
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Nick started slightly, his cut-short hair prickling under her fingertips, and then she completely lost her mind, because she suddenly had both hands in his hair and was pulling his head down to catch the part of his lips, his tiny indrawn breath.
The Demons Covenant Sarah Rees Brennan 2010
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Such innocence between anticipation and disappointment, a pale expanse of yielding flesh, an indrawn breath, the impossibility of discerning what to hope for.
Aftermath 2010
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Neil calculated that he had no more than two steps to go to reach the flat stone of the cellar floor when a sound—the faintest of scuffles, an indrawn breath—behind him caused every muscle in his body to tense.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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"Everything was withdrawn as far as possible,/indrawn: the tide far out, the ocean shrunken,/seabirds in ones or twos".
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I guarantee they will cause inner reflection, a hearty laugh or an indrawn breath of utter truth.
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