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单词 crepitate
释义

crepitatev.

/ˈkrɛpɪteɪt/
Etymology: < Latin crepitāt-, participial stem of crepitāre to crackle, frequentative of crepāre to crack, creak: see -ate suffix3.
1. intransitive. To break wind. Obsolete.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of breaking wind > break wind [verb (intransitive)]
fartOE
fistc1440
to let a scape1549
to break wind1552
crepitate1623
crack1653
poop1689
roar1897
poot1940
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Crepitate, to winde or fart.
1768 Life & Adv. Sir B. Sapskull I. 149.
2. Entomology. Of certain beetles: To eject a pungent fluid suddenly with a sharp report. (Cf. bombardier beetle n. at bombardier n. Compounds.)
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1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1828) IV. xli. 149 The substance which they emit when they crepitate.
3. To make a crackling sound, to crackle: spec. of the tissue of the lungs (also used of the action accompanying or producing this sound; cf. crepitation n. 2).
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sounds heard in body > [verb (intransitive)]
crepitate1853
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > crackle
brastlec1000
rashetOE
spranklea1387
sprinklea1398
graislea1522
crash1563
crackle?1570
crick-crackle1608
decrepitate1677
crump1789
happer1825
crumple1837
crickle1849
crick-crack1850
crepitate1853
1853 Fraser's Mag. 47 559 That [salt]..bears the heat of the fire without crepitating.
1877 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 378 The part affected is enlarged; crepitates imperfectly.
1888 Harper's Mag. Apr. 741 The immense hall rises,—oscillates,—..crepitates,—crumbles into ruin.
4. To rattle: said of the sound made by the crepitaculum of the rattle-snake. (Cf. crepitation n. 3.)

Derivatives

ˈcrepitating n. and adj.
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1849–52 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 595/1 The crepitating sensation caused by the friction of the head of the humerus against the under surface of the acromion.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxxiv. 307 I felt a something move. The something had a crepitating, insectine wriggle.
1883 Knowledge 13 July 18/2 Starch..on being pressed between the fingers, produces a peculiar sound known as ‘crepitating’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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