| 单词 | groom |
| 释义 | groom (once / 580 pages) 1nv 2n 3v To groom means to take care of the appearance, whether it's plucking eyebrows or combing hair. When you spend over an hour grooming in the bathroom, combing your mustache and buffing your nails, you drive everyone else who needs to use the bathroom crazy. You can groom something besides a person. Resorts groom their golf courses and ski runs. If you own a horse, you groom it every day. Animals groom each other by picking off insects and licking at fur. You can also use groom in regards to the mind. If you are being groomed for a certain spot or position, you are being prepared to take over its activities and responsibilities. Let's hope that you will someday be groomed for a spot on an executive board. And last but not least, the man getting married at a wedding is the groom. WORD FAMILYgroom: groomed, grooming, grooms+/groomed: ungroomed/grooming: groomings USAGE EXAMPLESThis possibly means that Rachel is being groomed to be the next star of The Bachelorette and if that happens—ABOUT TIME, SHOW. Time(Jan 02, 2017) In late August, on the day before classes resumed, Harriott instructed his team to comply with St. Thomas’s grooming standards. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) In an office toilet in London, young women discuss their grooming regimes. BBC(Dec 30, 2016) 1 1n someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses Syn|Hyper hostler, ostler, stableboy, stableman hand, hired hand, hired man a hired laborer on a farm or ranch 2v give a neat appearance to groom the dogs Syn|Hyper curry, dress arrange, coif, coiffe, coiffure, do, dress, set arrange attractively beautify, embellish, fancify, prettify make more beautiful 3v care for one's external appearance 2He is always well- groomed Syn|Hypo|Hyper neaten clean, cleanse clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing shaveremove body hair with a razor comb, comb out, disentanglesmoothen and neaten with or as with a comb arrange, coif, coiffe, coiffure, do, dress, setarrange attractively gel, mousseapply a styling gel to pomadeapply pomade to (hair) clean upmake oneself clean, presentable or neat make upapply make-up or cosmetics to one's face to appear prettier manicurecare for (one's hand) by cutting and shaping the nails, etc. barberperform the services of a barber: cut the hair and/or beard of pedicurecare for one's feet by cutting and shaping the nails, etc. do up, doll up, glam up, pretty upuse special care in dressing, making-up, etc. slick up, smarten up, spruce, spruce updress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion perfume, scentapply perfume to bathecleanse the entire body washto cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking lave, washcleanse (one's body) with soap and water lather, soaprub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning razorshave with a razor tonsureshave the head of a newly inducted monk bath, batheclean one's body by immersion into water douchedirect a spray of water into a bodily cavity, for cleaning sleek down, slick, slick downgive a smooth and glossy appearance bobcut hair in the style of a bob waveset waves in fluff, teaseruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect highlightapply a highlighter to one's cheeks or eyebrows in order to make them more prominent lipstickapply lipstick to rougeredden by applying rouge to flossuse dental floss to clean powderapply powder to decontaminaterid of contamination beautify, embellish, fancify, prettify make more beautiful 1n a man participant in his own marriage ceremony Syn|Hyper bridegroom participant someone who takes part in an activity 2n a man who has recently been married 3Syn|Hyper bridegroom honeymooner, newlywed someone recently married v educate for a future role or function He is grooming his son to become his successor Syn|Hypo|Hyper prepare, train prepare, train undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession develop, educate, prepare, traincreate by training and teaching check, condition, discipline, traindevelop (children's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control dispose, qualify make fit or prepared habilitatequalify for teaching at a university in Europe capacitatemake capable educate give an education to |
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