单词 | unremitting |
释义 | unremitting (once / 3326 pages) adj During a heat wave, it's not always the temperature itself that's a problem. It's that the heat is unremitting––you don't get a break from it. It's sweltering hot day after day after day. You'd think the word unremitting would be connected to the word remit, but that's true in only a loose way. Remit means to send back––but if you remit a debt, you forgive it, or lift it. Unremitting describes something that is never lifted or sent back. Like the Energizer Bunny, it keeps coming and coming and coming. WORD FAMILYunremitting: unremittingly+/remission: remissions/remit: remission, remitment, remits, remittance, remitted, remittent, remitting/remittance: remittances/remitting: unremitting USAGE EXAMPLESThe insults and indignities that black residents of Virginia, and black employees of NASA, unremittingly endured are integral to the drama. The New Yorker(Dec 23, 2016) London never overcame his rage at having been forced into unremitting toil for dirt wages. Seattle Times(Nov 28, 2016) In real life, though, both the lead-up and the aftermath are a story of unremitting hard work. Washington Post(Nov 16, 2016) adj uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing unremitting demands of hunger Syn ceaseless, constant, incessant, never-ending, perpetual, unceasing continuous, uninterrupted continuing in time or space without interruption |
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