| 单词 | superincumbent |
| 释义 | superincumbent (once / 20957 pages) adj WORD FAMILY incumbent: incumbency, incumbents, superincumbent+/incumbency: incumbencies USAGE EXAMPLESElsewhere he accounts for the diminished pressure on the top of a mountain by the diminished weight of the superincumbent column of air. Garnett, William, Heroes of Science: Physicists(2012) As the meal progressed, the superincumbent earth weighed less heavily on their souls. Palacio Vald?s, Armando, Froth(2011) These granitic masses have upheaved the superincumbent beds of stratified rocks, partly melting them. Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine), Cornwall(2011) adj lying or resting on and exerting pressure on something else superincumbent layers of dead plants cut off the air and arrested decomposition Syn superjacent lying immediately above or on something else |
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