| 释义 |
outbuild, v.|-ˈbɪld|
[out- 18, 17, 15.]
1. trans. To surpass in building or durability of building; in quot. 1834 catachr. to overbuild.
1742Young Nt. Th. vi. 312 Virtue alone out-builds the Pyramids. 1834M. Edgeworth Helen viii. I. 160 She had left off building castles in the air, but she had outbuilt herself on earth.
2. To build out. poetic and rhet.
1847Emerson Poems (1857) 15 Or how the fish outbuilt her shell. 1890J. Pulsford Loyalty to Christ I. 318 In Him the hidden affections and power of our Father are outbuilt and expressed. |