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Discover LudwigThe word "indrawn" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective which means to go inside, to hold back, or to avoid talking about something. You can use it to describe people, emotions, or actions. Example sentence: He had an indrawn nature and rarely spoke to anyone outside of his immediate family.
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indrawn
adjective
Having been drawn in.
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With a deliberately indrawn Owen Teale leading an otherwise sharp-edged cast in the title role, this "Ivanov" has negative energy to spare and almost no compassion.
Its closest relative is Siraiki, with which it shares the four distinctive implosive consonants /b/, /d/, /g/, and /j/, which are pronounced with indrawn breath and contrast phonemically with the usual /b/, /d/, /g/, and /j/.
Nose and throat mosquitoes wait for their moment, then surf into those passages as far as they can go on the indrawn breath of air.
(Charles McNulty in The Los Angeles Times suggested he think harder about that, praising the "indrawn intensity of his acting" but worrying that he wasn't always "able to meet the swooping demands of the score or" his "own determination to top the expectations of his fans").
Eventually, I asked why no one had used the word I can't use here, and the room fell silent, apart from a couple of indrawn breaths of disapproval.
Mr. Angelich dared to play long stretches with indrawn, pensive subtlety.
Time passes, the indrawn Victoria turns 16, and a sherry becomes hers for the asking.
In actuality, "daddy long legs" is one Jervis Pendleton, an emotionally indrawn man of means who becomes both Jerusha's benefactor and the object of a none-too-healthy obsession on her part.
Here, she found them surprisingly muted; what struck her most, she would recall later, was how indrawn the mother of the boy seemed, as if she had gone to some other place.
There was a brief silence, like an indrawn breath.
And as Angela, the abject nurse whose hirsute husband Tony Joe Absolomm), a onetime professional sportsman, gets Beverly all hot and bothered, Natalie Casey seems to have confused an indrawn shyness with some more primal deficiency.
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