单词 | washed |
释义 | washedadj. 1. a. Cleansed by rubbing in water or other liquid; also, moistened or drenched with water. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [adjective] thorough wetOE drunk1382 drunkenc1420 uliginosec1440 dung wetc1450 drookeda1522 wet through, to the skin1526 sogginga1552 washed1557 washy1566 muck-wet1567 wringing wet1570 drenched1589 dropsy1605 ydrenched1610 sobby1611 dropsieda1616 slocken1643 uliginous1650 dabbling1661 sodded1661 sobbing1664 sobbed1693 flashy1702 saturated1728 saturate1785 livereda1796 sappy1806 laving1812 sodden1820 sopped1822 soppy1823 soaked1829 dropsical1845 soddened1845 soaking wet1847 soggya1852 sogged1860 soaking1864 sopping1866 soaken1898 astream1929 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > [adjective] > washed washen1483 well-washed1525 washed1557 abluted1650 1557 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Diall Princes (1568) iv. vii. 125 b A paire of washed or perfume gloues. 1586 G. Whitney Choice of Emblemes 136 With Towell faire, to wipe theire washed hands. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear i. 258 The iewels of our father, With washt eyes Cordelia leaues you. View more context for this quotation 1620 G. Markham Farwell to Husbandry xiii. 104 Now it is not amisse that I speake here a word or two of washt corne, or the washing of corne. 1705 London Gaz. No. 4184/4 302 Bags of Cloth wash'd and unwash'd Spanish Felt Wooll. 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. lxix. 42 Then thy spruce citizen, wash'd artizan, And smug apprentice gulp their weekly air. 1864 T. S. Williams & P. L. Simmonds Eng. Commerc. Corr. 239 1s. 6d. pr. lb. for washed Merino free from burr. b. Treated with water or other liquid so as to remove impurities or soluble matter, to separate heavier from lighter parts, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > treatment with water or liquid > [adjective] > treated with water or liquid washedc1575 c1575 Perfect Bk. Kepinge Sparhawkes (1886) 9 This..will make more synues then all the scourings or washed meates that are used. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique v. xxi. 721 Washed bread is a meate very profitable for the health..bicause the washing of it doth wholie take away the heauines and clammines belonging vnto the earthie parts thereof. a1728 J. Woodward Attempt Nat. Hist. Fossils Eng. (1729) i. 169 This last the People who gather it here, call Wash'd-Amber. ?1785 J. Imison School of Arts (1796) II. 68 Adding about one part of washed whiting to three parts of carmine. 1810 J. Bailey Gen. View Agric. County of Durham 40 (note) This is not clean or washed ore; but ore mixed with other substances that could not be separated in washing. 1849 J. Pereira Elements Materia Medica (ed. 3) I. 344 When thus purified, it is called washed sulphur (sulphur lotum vel depuratum). 1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 101 Washed or double-washed Emery. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > mutilating coin > [adjective] rounged1532 minished1590 sheared1616 detrited1697 washed1711 clipped1719 sweated1869 1711 J. Tonson Waller's Poems A 3 Clipt and washt money goes about, when the entire and weighty lies hoarded up. d. Covered with a coating of precious metal. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > plated or coated metal > [adjective] > with precious metal silvered1480 plated1599 washed1772 1772 London Chron. 21–4 Mar. 288/3 It appeared there was but four shillings out of the guinea and half [of silver] good, the rest being only a washed metal. 1776 Pennsylvania Evening Post 25 May 264/2 An olive coloured short fustian coat, with..silver washed buttons. e. Of a water-colour or monochrome drawing: Having the tints produced by colour laid on in ‘washes’. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > [adjective] > having superficial colour washed1770 wash-coloured1879 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > [adjective] > applied in specific manner washed1770 airbrushed1912 impastoed1923 sponged1925 1770 Exhib. Royal Acad. 19 The Resurrection,..a washed drawing. a1806 J. Barry in R. N. Wornum Lect. on Painting (1848) 133 Raphael's washed drawing of the Calumny of Apelles. 1884 Linton Wood-Engraving 50 A ‘washed drawing’ is one in which shadows, broad tints,..(indeed all masses of colour,) are washed in broadly with a brush in sepia or India ink. f. Of stock, or sale of stock: see quot. and wash v. 20b. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [adjective] > types of securities > types of stock rigged1826 flat1841 watered1865 sticky1866 weak1875 washed1886 blue chip1894 pawned1903 stripped1979 1886 Harper's Mag. July 205/1 Washed or fictitious sales, or false reports of sales, are also penal offences. 1889 Rep. N.Y. Produce Exchange 1888–9 265 Washed or fictitious sales are positively forbidden. 1900 S. A. Nelson A B C Wall St. 70 It will also be readily seen that the opportunity for washed sales is a very open one. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [adjective] > refined or cultured polite?a1500 fileda1533 facetious1542 exquisited1581 refined1582 smooth1589 perpolite1592 terse1628 washed1628 refine1646 parliamentary1789 literary1793 urbane1800 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xx. sig. M2 I know, God hath chosen by weake things, to confound the wise: yet I see not but in all times, a washed Language hath much preuailed. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > [adjective] > made of chamois- or wash-leather chamoised1620 shammy1653 wash-leatherc1662 washed leather1694 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. xxxii Wash'd-Leather Boots [Fr. botines de cordouan]. i. Of a carpet: faded, bleached; specially treated so as to soften the colours and impart a sheen. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > floor-covering > [adjective] > covered with a carpet > type of carpet ingrain1836 thick-piled1853 Yarkand1880 Tekke1900 washed1911 Transylvanian1915 Herati1931 Lotto1931 Seljuk1931 shag pile1946 tufted1960 1911 G. G. Lewis Pract. Bk. Oriental Rugs iii. 40 What the trade speaks of as a ‘washed’ rug is not necessarily a ‘doctored’ one. There is a legitimate form of washing which is really a finishing process... It merely washes out the surplus color and sets the rest. 1962 C. W. Jacobsen Oriental Rugs 121 The danger of your buying both chemically washed and painted rugs today is practically nil. 1969 G. Sims Sand Dollar i. 14 He slumped down further in the chair, letting his feet sink deep into the Pekin washed-silk carpet. 1970 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Cookie Bird ii. 20 My room had..wall-to-wall washed Chinese carpeting in quiet shades of money. 1982 G. F. Newman Men with Guns x. 74 Wallechinsky moved agitatedly across the living room..his expensive, imported shoes making a faint squeak on the washed silk Chinese rug. 2. washed out adj. a. Of a fabric, dye, etc.: That has faded, or lost freshness, in the wash. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > absence of colour > [adjective] > having lost colour fade1303 discoloureda1393 walloweda1400 discolorate?a1425 whitterish1679 fady1736 washed out1796 greyed-out1919 1796 J. Austen Let. 1 Sept. (1995) 6 My new coloured gown is very much washed out, though I charged everybody to take great care of it. 1837 J. Morier Abel Allnutt xx. 117 The threadbare carpets, the washed-out curtains. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 342/1 Habited in a washed-out-blue French kind of pinafore. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 43 The shabby washed-out look of any colour which has not been dyed in this way. b. figurative. Lacking in colour, animation, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > feeling ill squeamish1670 howish1694 sick as a horse1705 nohowish1816 all-overish1820 washed out1850 all-over1861 wisht1868 crappy1956 1850 F. E. Smedley Frank Fairlegh i A complexion and general appearance only to be described by the term ‘washed out’. 1861 A. Trollope Orley Farm (1862) I. xii. 92 There was..none of that lanky, washed-out appearance which sorrow and trouble so often give to females. 1865 W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 166 They are a washed-out lot; but they laugh. 1885 Huxley in Life (1900) II. vi. 95 I am better..but curiously weak and washed out. 3. (all) washed up: finished; without prospect of further success or competence; no longer on intimate terms; exhausted, ‘washed out’. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > the end [phrase] > at an end at an upshot1653 all over1664 the jig is over1777 the jig is up1800 all up1825 the last of pea-time1834 (all) washed up1923 the party is over1931 1923 N.Y. Times 9 Sept. vii. 2/1 [Stage slang.] Washed up, all through for the night. 1925 Amer. Speech 1 36/1 [Stage slang.] How cheery it would be, when family ties begin to irk, to use their honest, ‘I'm washed up with you,’ to indicate that you hope the breach is permanent. 1933 S. Kingsley Men in White iii. i. 129 I'm washed up with the whole business. 1934 W. Saroyan Daring Young Man 38 We're washed up as a race, we're through, it's all over. 1935 J. T. Farrell Judgment Day xvi. 383 His lips twisted in a sneer at himself, and he thought that he was just a goddamn washed-up has-been. 1942 J. B. Priestley Black-out in Gretley viii. 182 You're too careless, Joe..and now you're all washed up. 1958 C. Williams Man in Motion (1959) ii. 23 I'm washed up as a writer. 1980 Newsweek 17 Nov. 7/1 Once he was the most underestimated man in American politics—a washed-up movie star, it was said, who was too old, too simple and too far right to be President. 4. to get washed up: to get the washing up done. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing table utensils > wash table utensils [verb (intransitive)] to wash up1820 wash1943 to get washed up1950 1950 J. Cannan Murder Included i. 12 Have to dine early now... We've only got Mrs Witts in the kitchen, and she likes to get washed up and finished. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1557 |
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