| 单词 | tank-busting | 
| 释义 | > as lemmastank-busting  a.   Forming adjectives designating something which bursts or breaks something denoted by the first element (literally or figuratively), as  belly-busting,  brain-busting,  heart-busting,  tooth-busting, etc. Also (chiefly Military slang): forming adjectives designating weaponry, a vehicle, etc., used to attack or destroy something denoted by the first element, as  dam-busting,  tank-busting, etc. Cf. -buster comb. form 1,   3.More established compounds of this nature are treated at the first element or as separate entries: see ball-busting adj., blockbusting adj., clot-busting adj. at clot n. Additions, etc. ΚΠ 1761    Gentleman's Mag. May 232/1  				Grief, Pow'rless of utterance, come heart-busting. 1925    Amer. Mercury Dec. 492/1  				Not rib-busting, perhaps, but comedy of a very fair sort. 1953    Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Aug. 519/3  				It remained for ‘dam-busting’ Lancasters of the Royal Air Force..to deliver the coup de grâce. 1967    Hartford 		(Connecticut)	 Courant 23 Aug. 30/3  				‘Barefoot’, the story of a young couple's first week of marriage in a lung-busting sixth floor brownstone, is still a gem. 1984    Washington Post 25 June  b5/1  				Fruit should be pureed so that it won't freeze into hard, tooth-busting blocks. 1991    Britain's Gulf War 15/1  				Around 2,000 up-to-the-minute aircraft ranging from the massive B52 bombers to tank-busting helicopters. 1996    Face Apr. 36/1  				Smith..trains his class through a rigorous course of falls, jumps and rolls in preparation for appearances in Hollywood's ever-increasing number of hyper-realistic limb-busting action shots. 2004    S. R. Shaber Big Funeral ii. 28  				He was finishing up a brain-busting exam for North Carolina History. < as lemmas  | 
	
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