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单词 daver
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daverv.

/ˈdeɪvə/
Etymology: In I. apparently cognate with Dutch daveren to shake, quake, Middle Low German, Low German dawern , a word of frequentative form, of which the root is uncertain. In II. perhaps transferred from the same.
dialect.
I. To stagger; to stupefy.
1. Scottish and English regional (northern). intransitive. To move or walk as if dazed or stupefied, to stagger; also to be benumbed. transitive. To stupefy, stun, benumb.
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?1590–1 J. Burel Passage of Pilgremer i, in Poems sig. O Bot tauren, and dauren, Like ane daft doitit fule.
1785 R. Forbes Jrnl. London to Portsmouth 6 in Select Coll. Poems Buchan Dial. We, bein wat, wou'd soon grow davert to stand..i' the cauld that time o' night.
?1795 H. Macneill Scotland's Scaith 22 See them now—how chang'd wi' drinking!.. Daver'd, doited, daiz'd and blinking.
1820 St. Kathleen III. 115 (Jam.) ‘Here's the bed, man! Whare..are ye davering to?’
1824 E. Swinburne in J. Raine Mem. J. Hodgson (1858) II. 45 I am somewhat davered about the vignettes.
II. To fade.
2. south-western dialect. intransitive. To fade, wither. Also figurative. (In first quot. causative or transitive)
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the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > deteriorate in condition [verb (intransitive)] > lose freshness
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welter1645
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1621 J. Reynolds Triumphs Gods Revenge: 1st Bk. v. 154 As if time and age had not power to wither the blossomes of our youth, as the Sunne hath to dauer the freshest Roses and Lillies.
1622 W. Yonge Diary (1848) 63 [The] hedges..davered as if they had been scorched with lightning.
1654 R. Vilvain tr. Enchiridium Epigr. vii. 54 My Piety 'gan to daver [L. labefacta cadebat].
1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Daver, to fade like a flower. Devon.
1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 17/1 Daver, to soil; to fade as a flower.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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