| 单词 | tomb-like |
| 释义 | > as lemmastomb-like tomb-like adv. and adj. (a) adv. in the manner of a tomb; in a manner reminiscent of a tomb; (b) adj. that resembles or is suggestive of a tomb. ΚΠ 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia v. 193 So finding also a great Marble stone..hee caused it by Masons to bee wrought handsomely and laid ouer the place, which hee inuironed with a square wall of hewen stone, Tombe like. 1635 J. Bentham Christian Confl. vii. 101 The proud and tombe-like Pharisees. 1795 M. Wollstonecraft Let. 10 June (2003) 295 We are here..in a sort of tomb-like house. 1845 H. B. Hirst Coming of Mammoth 18 No murmur broke The silence of that tomb-like spot. 1856 H. K. Cornish Sonnets & Verses 86 That single arch's grace Stands tomb-like o'er the spot. 1906 R. W. Chambers Fighting Chance xiii. 420 Miles of elaborate, untenanted dwellings..stood tomb-like in barren magnificence against the blazing blue of noon. 1989 D. Koontz Midnight i. xiv. 58 In tomblike blackness Sam fumbled for a lock button. 2015 K. B. Roth Josette xxvii. 327 The tomb-like silence that followed seemed to suck the very air from the room. < as lemmas |
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