单词 | pin down |
释义 | pin down (once / 8678 pages) 1v 2v WORD FAMILY pin down: pinned down, pinning down, pins down USAGE EXAMPLESIn late December, while pinned down beside a canal, Siatta was almost killed by a burst from a Taliban machine gun. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) What is harder to pin down is how he positioned himself among the theological trends of the time. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) The scope of taxidermy work at museums is difficult to pin down. Washington Post(Dec 21, 2016) 1 1v attach with or as if with a pin Syn|Hyper pin up attach cause to be attached 2v place in a confining or embarrassing position 2Syn|Hyper trap confine, detain deprive of freedom; take into confinement v define clearly Syn|Hypo|Hyper nail down, narrow, narrow down, peg down, specify concretize make something concrete determine fix in scope; fix the boundaries of |
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