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单词 distance-softened
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distance-softened
C2. With past participles, forming compounds with the sense ‘with or by distance’, as in distance-challenged, distance-mellowed, distance-softened, etc.
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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.
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