indrawn

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adjective

Having been drawn in or inward.

“Not wishing to disturb the animal he was trying to photograph, he held his indrawn breath until the shutter was released.”

Similar
withdrawnreserved
OriginEnglish drawn ← Middle English in- ← Old English in- →
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Meanings

adjectiveindrawn (not comparable)
  1. not comparableHaving been drawn in or inward.

    Not wishing to disturb the animal he was trying to photograph, he held his indrawn breath until the shutter was released.

    1 more example

    With awe and delight (the king crying for joy, the trumpets blaring, the nurse drunk) I saw again her lovely indrawn abdomen where my southbound mouth had briefly paused; and those puerile hips on which I had kissed the crenulated imprint left by the band of her shorts - that last mad immortal day behind the “Roches Roses.”

    1955 September 15, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 10, in Lolita, Paris: The Olympia Press […], →OCLC
  2. not comparableMentally withdrawn; introspective.

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivetending to reserve or introspection

Similar
withdrawnreserved
Also see
reservedwithdrawn

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Germanic*in
  3. Old Englishin-
  4. Middle Englishin-
  5. Englishin-
  6. Englishdrawn
  7. Englishindrawn

From in- + drawn.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

winnard
Cite this entry
APA

indrawn. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/indrawn

MLA

“indrawn.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/indrawn. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “indrawn,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/indrawn.

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