单词 | bone-breaking |
释义 | > as lemmasbone-breaking bone-breaking adj. that causes or is liable to cause broken bones; sufficiently violent or forceful to break bones; often used hyperbolically. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [adjective] > breaking specific things image-breaking1630 bone-breaking1644 ice-breaking1824 1644 W. P. Land-tempest 2 It is..a Bed-abandoning, a Bullet-blowing, a Brain-beating, a Back-bruising, a Bone-breaking, a Body-wounding..Tempest. 1799 G. S. Carey Balnea 215 Upon the rough pavement in the town, you are electrified with the bone-breaking motion. 1808 J. Bentham Sc. Reform 50 The bone setting and bone breaking hundred-mile road. 1910 Bull. Amer. Geogr. Soc. 42 674 Heavy nuts that fall 100 feet or more with bone-breaking force. 2014 A. Shearer This is Life (2015) xvi. 118 He was getting visitors and squeezing their hands with bone-breaking handshakes, just to illustrate how strong he still was. < as lemmas |
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