单词 | tumbled |
释义 | tumbledadj. That has tumbled or fallen; that has been thrown, tossed, or pitched down, together, etc.; also, tousled, disordered, rumpled. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [adjective] > put out of order > ruffled or dishevelled ruffled1440 toused1582 betumbled1594 rifled1638 dishevelled1647 tumbleda1657 mousled1691 fuffled1827 rufflesome1868 a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V cclxxxvii, in Poems (1878) IV. 172 Stand Harrie,..Whose tumbled Character, tooke from the Life, Has but resemblance. 1727 A. Pope et al. Περι Βαθους: Art of Sinking 20 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. If he looks upon a Tempest, he shall have an Image of a tumbled Bed. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 286 [A preacher with] no gown, not even that of Geneva, a tumbled band [etc.]. 1857 Ld. Dufferin Lett. from High Latitudes (ed. 3) 7 An amphitheatre of tumbled porphyry hills. 1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xiv Bell was seated on a bit of tumbled pillar. 1891 tr. H. Didon Jesus Christ I. iii. vii. 388 The old basalt walls of the tumbled-down houses..are still to be distinguished. 1895 I. Zangwill Master 443 Poets with lack-lustre visages and tumbled hair. 1907 Daily Chron. 11 Nov. 4/4 We read in these tumbled-together books the progress of a nation through all its stages. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.a1657 |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。