单词 | abluted |
释义 | ablutedadj. That has been washed clean. Also: worn away by washing. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > [adjective] > washed washen1483 well-washed1525 washed1557 abluted1650 1650 T. Venner Via Recta 307 Excorticated Barley well mundified and abluted. 1754 T. Gardner Hist. Acct. Dunwich 96 The Shingle and Sand were so abluted in some Places, by the Vehemence of the furious Waves of the Sea..that the Foundation of Houses..on each Side of the New-Port..were exhibited to open View. 1853 A. M. Maillard Miles Tremenhere II. vi. 75 When this abluted thing in the second tub had told her tale, she paused. 1858 William Limon iii. 54 The presiding sage..Greeted him, as he had done boys before, Whose abluted faces and infantile Features gained favour. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 663 He scratched..his partly exposed, wholly abluted skin. 1992 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 21 Feb. a3 When I presented myself, immaculately abluted..in the basement of the Eye Care Centre. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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