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indrawing

n. an inhale of breath

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Carefully, gently, he was helping me out of the oilskins and I heard 'the quick indrawing of breath as he saw where I'd torn my shirt-sleeve off at the shoulder, the red-stained wads of gauze with which Mary had plugged both sides of the wound -- the bullet had passed straight through, missing the bone but tearing half the deltoid muscle away -- in the brief minute we'd stopped in the radio shack after we'd come down that ladder again.