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单词 powder-burn
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powder-burnv.

Brit. /ˈpaʊdəbəːn/, U.S. /ˈpaʊdərˌbərn/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: powder n.1, burn v.1
Etymology: < powder n.1 + burn v.1 Compare later powder burn n.
transitive. To inflict a powder burn upon.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > burn or scald
forscalda1225
forseethe?c1225
scald1340
burn1509
powder-burn1782
vitriolize1886
vitriol1897
1782 J. Benton Let. 4 Dec. in T. Roosevelt Winning of West (1889) II. 409 Shooting him through the Heart at so small a Distance as to Powder burn his Flesh.
1846 W. D. Stewart & J. W. Webb Altowan I. iv. 125 He might powder-burn the bear by the nearness of the shot.
1921 Indianapolis Star 28 May 16/4 One of the three..fired one shot which was so near him that his shirt was powder burned.
1971 R. Moisés et al. Tall Candle iii. 52 One soldier shot at Armando's head, point blank; Armando was not hurt, just powder-burned around the mouth.
2003 Press Jrnl. (Vero Beach, Florida) (Nexis) 6 June c4 That Ragged Old Flag..got powder-burned the night Francis Scott Key sat watching it writing, ‘Oh Say Can You See’.

Derivatives

ˈpowder-burnt adj.
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1892 Edwardsville (Illinois) Intelligencer 2 Nov. A powder burnt $100 bill remained in the safe, which the robbers did not take.
1916 E. R. Burroughs Beasts of Tarzan xviii. 279 A little hole about which lay a blackened rim of powder burned flesh.
1994 Denver Post 4 Oct. e3/2 Lange sometimes had the lurid, powder-burned look of a figure in a Weegee photograph.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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