单词 | overswelling |
释义 | overswellingn. The action of overswell v.; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > excessive increase excrescence1533 surcrease1600 overgrowth1604 overswelling1632 surcruec1638 excresce1707 hypertrophy1856 inflation1885 1632 G. Wither Psalmes of David cxlix. 283 Oh save mee, from the water's over-swelling; Let mee from forraigne Children be secured. 1695 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. III. xiii. 563 Υπέρογκα..may better be rendred (over-swelling). 1817 S. T. Coleridge Zapolya iv. iii. 126 My heart is full, and these poor words express not, They are but an art to check, its overswelling. 1876 Rep. Canal Investigating Comm. (N.Y. State) II. 1961 Did you ever overhear a word from Mr. Seward of the overswelling of these accounts against the State? 1973 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 183 408 If the gel after equilibration in the solution is replaced in solvent there is a transient over-swelling. 2000 USA Today (Nexis) 7 Nov. 1 d The types [of shinsplints] include inflammation of membranes, overswelling of muscles and stress fractures in the shinbone. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). overswellingadj. Now rare. That overswells. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [adjective] > excessive or too great in amount or degree overmeteeOE unmeeteOE unimeteOE unmethelyOE over-mickleOE hoflesc1175 overmucha1300 unskilwisea1340 unskilfulc1370 luxuriousc1374 overseemingc1384 superfluec1384 unreasonablea1387 outrageousc1390 over-greatc1390 overlargec1390 overgrowna1398 unmeasurablea1398 unmoderatea1398 unordinatea1398 immoderate1398 rankc1400 overabundantc1410 excessivea1420 superabundant?a1425 unmeasureda1425 superfluousc1475 nimious?c1500 surfeitc1500 overliberala1535 torc1540 exceeding1548 distemperate1557 over-ranka1568 overswelling1582 accessive1583 overaboundinga1600 overteeming1603 excessful1633 overproportionated1647 superproportioned1652 over-proportioned1662 overproportionate1672 unduea1684 unequal1704 unmerciful1707 hypermetric1854 hypertrophied1879 over the top1980 1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum iii. f. 65 For big and ouerswellyng eyen, be feeble of sight..but deepe eyen see perfectlye a farre of. 1596 F. Sabie Olde Worldes Trag. in Adams Complaint sig. E2v The tallest mountaines in the world so wide, Now couered were with ouer-swelling tide. 1629 F. Hubert Hist. Edward II 54 Such over-swelling greatnesse was the Cause That made my Peeres report: His cursed Dam To bee a Witch. 1637 J. Shirley Example iii. 29 Besides the freedome of my birth, and wealth Of blood, I boast no over-swelling fortunes. a1785 R. Glover Athenaid (1787) II. xx. 266 Her beauteous eyes a gushing torrent pour Like overswelling fountains, once serene. 1843 J. G. Percival Hope in Poet. Wks. (1859) 289 Like an overswelling river, Round her flows a stream of light: Radiant pinions o'er it quiver; Countless joys are there in flight. 1859 Once a Week 1 Oct. 267/1 He was..quite incapable of the martial air and over-swelling dignity proper to the British beadle. 1892 ‘M. Field’ Sight & Song 103 By an overswelling bank Tufted with dun grasses rank. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1632adj.1582 |
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