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单词 epitaph
释义
epitaphep‧i‧taph /ˈepətɑːf $ -tæf/ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINepitaph
Origin:
1300-1400 French épitaphe, from Greek epitaphion, from epi- (EPICENTER) + taphos ‘tomb, funeral’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • He wanted it as his epitaph and left it in a letter passed to his parents on his death.
  • Her film replays in my head, as an epitaph to some one else's dream.
  • It is a sad epitaph to Salvador Allende.
  • It so happens that Parrhasios composed his own review for posterity, namely the epitaph inscribed on his tombstone.
  • Local people found the epitaph unseemly and ostracised the Parsons.
  • Susanna Highmore asked Elizabeth Carter to write a piece on Leapor, probably an epitaph.
  • With that I sat down to write what would prove to be either my epitaph or my passport back to power.
word sets
WORD SETS
asphyxia, nounautopsy, nounbarrow, nounbequeath, verbbereaved, adjectivebereavement, nounbier, nounbody bag, nounbody count, nounburial, nounbury, verbcasket, nouncatacomb, nouncatafalque, nouncemetery, nouncenotaph, nouncharnel house, nounchurchyard, nouncoffin, nouncommittal, nouncondolence, nouncoroner, nouncorpse, nouncortege, nouncot death, nouncremate, verbcrematorium, nouncrib death, nouncrucifixion, nouncrucify, verbcrypt, noundeath mask, noundemise, noundeparted, adjectiveD.O.A., adjectivedrown, verbembalm, verbend, nounepitaph, nouneulogy, nounexhume, verbexpire, verbfatality, nounfuneral, nounfunerary, adjectivefunereal, adjectivegrave, noungravedigger, noungravestone, noungraveyard, nounheadstone, nounhearse, nounhospice, nouninter, verbinterment, nounmausoleum, nounmorgue, nounmortality, nounmortician, nounmortuary, nounmortuary, adjectivemourner, nounmourning, nounmummify, verbmummy, nounnecrophilia, nounobsequies, nounpall, nounpallbearer, nounpassing, nounperish, verbplot, nounprobate, nounprobate, verbpyre, nounquietus, nounremains, nounrest, verbrigor mortis, nounRIP, rise, verbsarcophagus, nounsepulchre, nounshroud, nounthrenody, nountoll, nountomb, nountombstone, nountumulus, nounundertaker, nounundertaking, nounurn, nounvault, nounwake, nounwar memorial, nounwill, nounwinding sheet, nounwreath, noun
a short piece of writing on the stone over someone’s grave (=place in the ground where someone is buried)
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