单词 | distance-softened |
释义 | > as lemmasdistance-softened C2. With past participles, forming compounds with the sense ‘with or by distance’, as in distance-challenged, distance-mellowed, distance-softened, etc. ΚΠ 1825 Aberdeen Censor 12 May 131 And the broken dash of the rocky linn, With its distance-mellowed gentle din. 1850 E. B. Browning Poems (new ed.) II. 196 You can hear that evermore Distance-softened noise. 1900 E. Mitchell Plotters of Paris xi. 188 Not a sound broke the night except the distance-muffled hum of street traffic. 1932 J. L. Mitchell Lost Trumpet xi. 142 We heard the distance-softened clamour of dance-music. 2002 Spectator (Hamilton, Ont.) (Nexis) 16 Dec. c16 Meg and Tom Hanks are star-crossed, distance-challenged lovers-to-be. < as lemmas |
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