| 单词 | bone-crushing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbone-crushing bone-crushing adj. that crushes or is capable of crushing bones; characterized by this; sufficiently heavy, violent, or forceful to crush bones (often used hyperbolically); also (and in earliest use) figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of bones > [adjective] > bone-crushing bone-crushinga1698 a1698 W. Row Suppl. in R. Blair Life (1848) (modernized text) x. 168 Mr Blair..finds the burden of that congregation very ponderous and only not bone-crushing. 1859 Sci. Amer. 2 July 2/2 That..bone-crushing appearance of destructive power so fearful to contemplate in bears and certain monsters of the deep. 1914 E. Heller in Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 61 11 The preservation of such skulls is due largely to their great size and density, which prevents such bone crushing carnivores as hyenas from breaking them up for food. 1960 Jrnl. Insurance 27 123/1 A candidate for the doctorate submits his dissertation after the usual amount of bone-crushing labor. 2008 W. Schneider Such is Life 118 He grabbed my hand in a bone crushing handshake. < as lemmas |
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