英语词汇“verbicide”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	verbicide
释义	▪ I. verbicide¹\|ˈvɜːbɪsaɪd\| [f. L. verbi-, verbum word + -cide 1.] One who mutilates or destroys a word. 1867Independent (N.Y.) 2 May (Cent.), These clownish verbicides have carried their antics to the point of disgust.1894Let. in Melbourne Argus 10 Jan., It is this laziness in speaking which makes them [the Australians] grow up habitual verbicides. ▪ II. ˈverbicide² [f. as prec. + -cide 2.] The act of destroying the sense or value of a word; the perversion of a word from its proper meaning. 1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-t. i. (1859) 10 Homicide and verbicide—that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning..—are alike forbidden.1886Q. Rev. Jan. 177 It is ‘verbicide’ in a higher sense than that in which Oliver Wendell Holmes applied the term to punning. Hence ˈverbicidal a., tending or liable to destroy the sense or value of a word. 1978Forum on Med. Apr. 85/1 Other verbicidal entertainers who were school dropouts have also received ‘honorary’ degrees.1985Times 27 Mar. 12/8 The verbicidal impulses of Pentagonese.
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