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Definitions: Indrawn |
IndrawnAdjective1. Tending to reserve or introspection; "a quiet indrawn man". 2. Made by drawing the breath in suddenly; "an indrawn gasp"; "her announcement was greeted with several indrawn breaths from around the table". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "indrawn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1897. (references) |
Synonym: IndrawnSynonym: withdrawn (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Indrawn |
| English words defined with "indrawn": withdrawn. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And as he lifted it clear, a rattling breath came out, and a sobbing breath was indrawn. |
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| "Indrawn" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 90.48% of the time. "Indrawn" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 90.48% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 9.52% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "indrawn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i dyndur (congested). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | затворен в себе си, поет навътре. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 被卷入. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | indrawnay tras (peaked, pinched). (various references) втянутый. (various references) uvučen (indented, reentrant). (various references) içeriye çekilmiş. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Indrawn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: indraw, indrawing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-n-n-r-w" | |
-1 letter: inward. | |
-2 letters: dinar, diwan, drain, drawn, nadir, ranid, rawin. | |
-3 letters: airn, arid, darn, dawn, draw, nard, raid, rain, rand, rani, rind, wadi, wain, wair, wand, ward, warn, wind. | |
-4 letters: aid, ain, air, and, ani, awn, daw, din, inn, nan, naw, rad, ran, raw, ria, rid, rin, wad, wan, war, win. | |
-5 letters: ad, ai, an, ar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-i-n-n-r-w" | |
+2 letters: undrawing, wandering. | |
+3 letters: dinnerware, inwardness, rawinsonde, wanderings. | |
+4 letters: breadwinner, dinnerwares, downgrading, handwringer, handwriting, handwritten, rawinsondes, unrewarding. | |
+5 letters: breadwinners, breadwinning, handwringers, handwringing, handwritings, inwardnesses, snowboarding. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 64 72 61 77 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. -.. .-. .- .--. -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100100 01110010 01100001 01110111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n d r a w n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0064 0072 0061 0077 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43807084678980 |
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