单词 | neuroticize |
释义 | neuroticizev. transitive. To make neurotic. ΚΠ 1905 J. Galsworthy Let. 5 June in E. Garnett Lett. from John Galsworthy (1934) 77 Bosinney is somewhat neuroticized, or I would say made haunted, in the second part. 1928 Daily Express 7 July 8/3 Already there are signs that tennis is making us soft. We are being sentimentalised and neuroticised by it. 1960 G. E. Wotton Let. 7 Apr. in H. T. Moore World of L. Durrell (1962) 103 Loss of roots and lack of tradition neuroticize the masses and prepare them for collective hysteria. 1997 M. Gass Rebuilding Ther. v. 116 Janov's Primal Therapy specializes in reliving the traumas and negative experiences that neuroticize the person. Derivatives neuˈroticized adj. rare ΚΠ 1975 Negro Amer. Lit. Forum 9 42/1 The two arcs which precede the last section of Cane, ‘Kabnis’, represent the neuroticized Black consciousness of the North in quest of its uprooted spirituality and racial identity by means of a return to the moon-filled Southland of ‘moon-children’. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1905 |
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