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单词 wiredraw
释义

wiredraw

English

Alternative forms

  • wire-draw
  • wyredraw (obsolete)

Etymology

From wire + draw.

Verb

wiredraw (third-person singular simple present wiredraws, present participle wiredrawing, simple past wiredrew, past participle wiredrawn)

  1. (transitive, now rare) To stretch (some physical thing) out, as though drawing wire; to elongate.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To stretch (words, a meaning etc.) to suit one's own purpose.
    • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, [], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount [], OCLC 946730821:
      , I.56:
      I am of opinion that the uncontrouled libertie, that all men have to wrest, dissipate, and wyredraw a word so religious and important, to so many severall idiomes, hath much more danger than profit following it.
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