| 单词 | breath-giver |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbreath-giver b. With participles and agent nouns, forming compounds in which breath expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in breath-stopping, breath-sweetening (adjectives); breath-giver, breath-taker, etc. ΚΠ a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. x. sig. Oo Peace (wicked woman) peace, vnworthy to breathe, that doest not acknowledge the breath-giuer. 1602 J. Beaumont Metamorph. Tabacco sig. B Breath-giuing herbe, none other I inuoke To helpe me paint the praise of sugred smoke. 1791 J. Payne Universal Geogr. I. iv. 809/2 The bone..is thus thrust through the cartilage of the nose, so entirely stops up both nostrils... These people..whilst they wear these breath-stoppers, must be incapable of any swift motion. 1878 E. B. Shuldham Clergyman's Sore Throat iii. 40 The best runner is as a rule, other things being equal, the best breath-taker. 1979 N.Y. Times 10 Dec. d11/2 The breath-robbing occupational disease that doctors call pneumoconiosis. 1999 L. Mason Sweets & Sweet Shops 10 Breath-sweetening lozenges. 2000 Diva May 38/1 A converted stone wine-production cottage, with a breath-stopping view down the valley to the Mediterranean. < as lemmas |
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