If you say that the nights, evenings, or days are drawing in, you mean that it is becoming dark at an earlier time in the evening, because autumn or winter is approaching.
[British]
The days draw in and the mornings get darker. [VERBPARTICLE]
2. phrasal verb
If you draw someone in or draw them into something you are involved with, you cause them to become involved with it.
It won't be easy for you to draw him in. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
You gradually fall under the spell and get drawn in deeper and deeper. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
Don't let him draw you into his strategy. [VERB noun PARTICLE noun]
[Also VERBPARTICLE noun (not pronoun)]
3. phrasal verb
If you draw in your breath, you breathe in deeply. If you draw in air, you take it into your lungs as you breathe in.
Rose drew her breath in sharply. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
Roll the wine around in your mouth, drawing in air at the same time. [VERBPARTICLE noun]
See full dictionary entry for draw
draw in in British English
verb(intr, adverb)
1.
(of hours of daylight) to become shorter
2.
(of a train) to arrive at a station
Examples of 'draw in' in a sentence
draw in
I heard her draw in her breath, then she said, `I feel so lost.
Ian St James Awards AT THE STROKE OF TWELVE
The breath caught in her chest and her mouth opened to draw in the air.
Thomas, Rosie THE WHITE DOVE
Chinese translation of 'draw in'
draw in
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(Brit)[nights]变(變)长(長) (biàncháng)
⇒ The nights draw in and the mornings get darker.黑夜变长，早晨天色变得昏暗。 (Hēiyè biàncháng, zǎochén tiānsè biàn de hūn'àn.)