单词 | incontinency |
释义 | incontinency (once / 101891 pages) n WORD FAMILY incontinency: incontinencies+/continent: continence, continency, continental, continently, continents, incontinent, subcontinent/continental: continentally, intercontinental, transcontinental/incontinence: incontinences/incontinent: incontinence, incontinency, incontinently/transcontinental: transcontinentally USAGE EXAMPLESThe incontinency of his wife contributed to wean his soul from all earthly ties. Butler, Alban, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs,...(2010) What had he to do with gluttony, drunkenness, pride, wantonness, incontinency, and the rest of my ware? Kerr, James, The Covenants And The Covenanters—C...(2010) Now this is a mark of "incontinency" in pleasurable matters, and of "effeminacy" or "squeamishness" in unpleasant matters, according to Ethic. vii, 1. Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secun...(2010) n involuntary urination or defecation Syn|Hypo|Hyper incontinence enuresis, urinary incontinence inability to control the flow of urine and involuntary urination bed-wettingenuresis during sleep; especially common in children (who usually outgrow it) overflow incontinenceurinary incontinence that occurs when the bladder is so full that it continually leaks urine; often attributable to a blocked urethra (e.g., due to prostate enlargement) or weak bladder muscles or nerve damage stress incontinenceurinary incontinence that occurs when involuntary pressure is put on the bladder by coughing or laughing or sneezing or lifting or straining urge incontinenceurinary incontinence that is generally attributable to involuntary contracts of the bladder muscle resulting in an urgent need to urinate accompanied by a sudden loss of urine; most common in people over 60 years of age elimination, evacuation, excreting, excretion, voiding the bodily process of discharging waste matter |
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