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单词 awhape
释义

awhapev.

Forms: Middle English–1500s; except in Spenser only in past participle awaped, awapped, awhaped.
Etymology: Etymology uncertain; nothing similar recorded in Old English; but compare Gothic af-hwapjan to choke, which would be in Old English *ofhwęppan . Compare whop v.
Obsolete.
To amaze, stupefy with fear, confound utterly.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > cause wonder, astonish [verb (transitive)] > stupefy
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the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing physical symptoms > cause physical symptoms [verb (transitive)] > stupefy
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c1300 K. Alis. 899 Alisaundre was sore awaped, That he was so ascaped.
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 814 Hire wympil let sche falle And tok non hed, so sore sche was a-wapid [v.r. a-whaped, aquaped].
1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. i Alone, awhaped, and a mate.
1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 72 Deeply doo your sad words my wits awhape.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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