单词 | re-engorge |
释义 | re-engorgev. rare. transitive. Of a liquid: to pour back into (a place); to fill again. Also intransitive: (of tissue, an organ, etc.) to become engorged with fluid again (cf. engorge v. 1b). In early use reflexive. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or fact of pouring or being poured > pour [verb (transitive)] > back or again > into or in a place re-engorge1610 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 208 When..the sea reengorgeth it selfe backe againe into the sea [L. se æquor refundit in æquor]. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 466 My head hanging downeward, and the water reingorging it selfe in my throat with a strugling force. 1953 Trans. Amer. Microsc. Soc. 72 109 In a lot of ten engorged females isolated in a foot-square cage, there was no ovipositing but two mosquitoes did reengorge. 1992 L. Murray Transl. from Nat. World 3 Ghosts with dented heads and porthole eyes, whose boats recline on beds of tidal concentrate, to resurrect, if ever, when aquamarine re-engorges the mangroves. 1999 N. Angier Woman i. 11 Bustillo pierces and vacuums out every follicle so quickly that the honeycomb seems alive with accordian motion: pockets fall in, reengorge with blood. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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