单词 | bemire |
释义 | bemirev. 1. transitive. To cover or befoul with mire. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > dirty or soil with specific kinds of dirt [verb (transitive)] > dirty with mud mire?c1475 glar?a1500 bemirec1532 bemud1580 bemoila1610 immire1611 muddya1616 mud1632 muddify1739 slutch1745 belute1760 slush1807 slub1886 c1532 T. More Let. Impugnynge J. Fryth in Wks. 833/2 If only they that are alredy bymired, were..myred on more and more. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. v. 100 I was filthily bemired. 1837 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales (1851) II. xvi. 237 His shoes were bemired, as if he had been travelling on foot. 2. To plunge or roll in the mire; in passive to sink in the mire, be bogged. literal and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > dirty or soil with specific kinds of dirt [verb (transitive)] > dirty with mud > roll in mud wallow1570 bemire?1575 ?1575 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. (new ed.) 366 If we sincke not to the bottome, at the leaste we remayne all bemyred. 1750 J. Wesley Serm. Several Occasions III. 249 Doubt..bemires the Soul. 1883 Cent. Mag. 377 Bemired in the deeply rutted roads. Derivatives beˈmired adj. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > [adjective] > rendered immobile or held fast > in mud or bog mired1621 bemired1654 bogged1854 1654 J. Trapp Comm. Psalms II. (Psalms xl. 2) 690 As a bemired beast he was in a perishing condition. beˈmiring n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [noun] > muddiness > dirtying with mud bemiring1600 bemudding1611 miring1641 1600 W. Cornwallis Ess. I. x. sig. G2 Good safe care to keep her selfe from bemiring. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < v.c1532 |
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