| 单词 | war-weary |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswar-weary war-weary adj. (a) weary of war; (b) U.S. spec. applied to aircraft badly damaged in war-time, and which are withdrawn from service for repair, conversion, or scrapping; also elliptical as n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > by or of battle, fighting, or war forfoughtenc1275 weary of-foughtc1330 foughten1786 war-weary1895 society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [adjective] > damaged and withdrawn from service war-weary1895 society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > used in warfare > damaged and withdrawn from service war-weary1895 1895 W. B. Yeats Poems 7 I have not yet, war-weary king, Been spoken of with any man. 1902 Edinb. Rev. July 39 Campbell's ‘Soldier's Dream’ is the most beautiful rendering in English verse of the war-weary mood. 1945 Sat. Evening Post 17 Mar. 20 Thousands of once precious B-17's are now ‘war-wearies’. Not worth salvaging, they clutter up foreign and domestic airfields. 1945 Fortune Aug. 208 Five war-weary Liberators, described with horrors by their pilots as ‘clunkers’. < as lemmas |
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