单词 | to gust up |
释义 | > as lemmasto gust up intransitive. to gust up: to rise in gusts or bursts; also without up, to blow in gusts. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (intransitive)] > emerge or present itself to come in (also to, on, etc.) placec1225 astart1393 becomea1400 emerge1570 bubble1578 to flower off1644 steal1798 to gust up1813 to crop up1844 outcrop1856 the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (intransitive)] > in bursts to gust up1813 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (of the wind) [verb (intransitive)] > blow fitfully > in gusts wapc1400 thud1513 flaw1806 to gust up1813 tuck1833 huffle1862 1813 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) 608 The Pride, like the bottom-swell of our lake, gusts up again. 1899 J. M. Falkner Moonfleet (ed. 3) xi The wind came gusting round the corner. 1927 Chambers's Jrnl. 312/2 The wind was gusting. 1960 I. Shaw Two Weeks in Another Town v. 77 Jack..remembered what Delaney had looked like gusting into the dressing-room. 1963 Times 13 May 4/4 An exciting final, fought out in winds that gusted to more than 30 knots. 1964 N. Freeling Double-barrel v. 146 An erratic wind..gusted at me from all quarters. < as lemmas |
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