释义 |
reˈnerve, v. [re- 5 a.] trans. To put fresh nerve into, to strengthen again.
1652Benlowes Theoph. xii. cxviii, Draught of Promethean fir'd air took Renerves slack joynts, and ransacks each phlegmattick Nook. 1807J. Barlow Columb. v. 702 War and Washington renerve the soul. 1817Byron Mazeppa xvii, The sight re-nerved my courser's feet. 1855Lynch Rivulet i. v, Up from the dust the enfeebled start, Armed and re-nerved for victories. absol.1889Skrine Mem. E. Thring 89 It was a vitalising joy which touched us, not to soothe, but to renerve. |