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- adjective rare
Swung or bentinward .
Etymologies
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Examples
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As he passed through the opening, the front sight of the rifle caught upon the edge of the inswung door with sufficient force to close it tightly after the fleeing ape.
Tarzan of the Apes 1914
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As he passed through the opening, the front sight of the rifle caught upon the edge of the inswung door with sufficient force to close it tightly after the fleeing ape.
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
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For as long as thirty breathless seconds Lanyard remained in doubt; there was the barest chance that in his preoccupation Blensop might pass through to the garden without noticing that dark figure flattened against the inswung half of the window, in the dense shadow of the portière.
The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf Louis Joseph Vance 1906
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