indrawing means an inhalation of breath; an inspiration. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From in- + drawing.
noun
- An inhalation of breath; an inspiration.“But--oh," she added, with a sharp indrawing of her breath, "how I did love him!"”
- The drawing inward of anything.“Watt saw the little movements of the stuff, the little bulgings and crumplings, and the sudden indrawings, where it was nipped, between forefinger and thumb probably, for those are the nippers.”