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单词 to go stale
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to go stale
a. Sport. Of an athlete, a racing animal, etc.: Out of condition through over-severe training or exertion too long continued. to go stale.
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fordreamed?a1400
forplaint1423
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forcrieda1600
overdriven1653
over-drove1751
mooth1768
forridden1820
fatigued1853
stale1856
fucked-out1862
wooden-weary1888
blind-weary.1923
partied-out1950
stressed out1980
1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports ii. i. vi. §7. 335 By this means the [horse's] legs are not made more stale than necessary.
1868 Field 4 July 15/1 In the third heat [rowing], Mair of Magdalen, easily beat Willan of Exeter, who seemed stale and gone off.
1885 Truth 28 May 853/2 Dame Agnes will probably be stale after her exertions in the Derby.
1889 D. C. Murray & H. Murray Dangerous Catspaw 38 William, though a little stale, turned out to be a past master in the art.
in extended use.1894 Nation (N.Y.) 22 Mar. 209/1 It sometimes happens that, in the strain of this part of the race [for Cambridge honours], the boy outgrows the brilliant precocity which put him ahead of his rivals, and emerges merely an ordinary young man with no further possibilities of use. This disaster is technically known as ‘going stale’.1903 W. T. Stead in Rev. of Reviews May 574 (Cent. Dict. Suppl.) In 1892, the Unionist administration having gone stale, it was turned out.
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