| 单词 | sandbag |
| 释义 | sandbag (once / 5730 pages) 1nv 2v WORD FAMILY sandbag: sandbagged, sandbagger, sandbagging, sandbags+/sandbagger: sandbaggers USAGE EXAMPLESAs Mohamed guarded a displaced persons camp this week, scrolled through photos of himself in front of sandbags on the front lines southeast of Mosul. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) Mr. Wheeler refused to pass around draft rules and sandbagged his colleagues with surprise votes and deals, the details of which were often altered later. Wall Street Journal(Dec 16, 2016) Soldiers piled up sandbags and propped up machine guns on them but merely waved people through checkpoints. The Guardian(Dec 11, 2016) 1 1n a bag filled with sand; used as a weapon or to build walls or as ballast Hyper bag a flexible container with a single opening 2v protect or strengthen with sandbags; stop up The residents sandbagged the beach front Hyper strengthen gain strength 3v hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag 2Syn|Hyper stun hit deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument 1v treat harshly or unfairly Hyper wrong treat unjustly; do wrong to 2v compel by coercion, threats, or crude means They sandbagged him to make dinner for everyone Syn|Hyper dragoon, railroad coerce, force, hale, pressure, squeeze to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city" 3v downplay one's ability (towards others) in a game in order to deceive, as in gambling Hyper misinform, mislead give false or misleading information to |
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