单词 | jumble |
释义 | jum·ble I. intransitive verb 1. < the soldiers jumbled through the door — Robert McLaughlin > 2. a. archaic b. < entrances and exits tended to jumble — Time > 3. archaic transitive verb 1. < jumbles the stories up, giving no indication of when they were written — Edmund Wilson > < jumbled up the members of the chorus … to suit his pictorial effect — Edward Sackville-West > 2. archaic < a beast … whose trot would jumble me — William Cowper > II. 1. < picturesque jumbles of steep roofs, balconies, gables, dormers, and many chimneys — T.E.Tallmadge > < a jumble of fishing craft — Martin Chisholm > < a thick jumble of technical terms and apparatus — Shirley A. Briggs > < our plans fell into a jumble — Carleton Beals > < an architectural jumble > 2. archaic 3. Britain < most of the stuff was very inferior jumble — Nigel Balchin > also < they had a pair at the jumble — H.E.Bates > Synonyms: see confusion III. or jum·bal |
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