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单词 cudgel
释义

cudgel1/ʹkuj(ə)l/ noun

a short heavy club

take up the cudgels

to engage vigorously in a defence

always ready to take up the cudgels on behalf of some oppressed minority

[Old English cycgel]

cudgel2verb trans (cudgelled, cudgelling, NAmer cudgeled) (cudgeling)

to beat (somebody) with or as if with a cudgel

cudgel one's brains

to make force oneself to a supreme effort of cogitation or recollection

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