单词 | to glide into |
释义 | > as lemmasto glide into c. to glide into: to pass by imperceptible degrees into (a condition or state); to fall insensibly into (doing something). Said also of a species, etc.: To shade off insensibly into, have no clear demarcation from (something else). ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > gradual change > change gradually [verb (intransitive)] > from or into slidea1398 growc1460 wear1555 accrue1586 ripen1611 shuffle1635 melt1651 steal1660 spawn1677 verge1757 to glide into1800 shade1819 evolve?1831 shadow1839 grade1892 1800 Hatchett in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 90 391 Muscle, ligament, and tendon, seem to glide almost imperceptibly into each other. 1825 E. Bulwer-Lytton Falkland 22 I suffer one moment to glide into another. 1840 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. VIII. lxii. 358 All feelings of hostility..glide into those of peculiar courtesy. 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. v. 41 I have glided on into telling you the secret. 1869 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals I. ii. 282 The peasant proprietor soon glided hopelessly into debt. < as lemmas |
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