英语词汇“dam-busting”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. Forming adjectives designating something which bursts or breaks something denoted by the first element (literally or figuratively), as belly-busting, brain-busting, heart-busting, tooth-busting, etc. Also (chiefly Military slang): forming adjectives designating weaponry, a vehicle, etc., used to attack or destroy something denoted by the first element, as dam-busting, tank-busting, etc. Cf. -buster comb. form 1, 3.More established compounds of this nature are treated at the first element or as separate entries: see ball-busting adj., blockbusting adj., clot-busting adj. at clot n. Additions, etc.

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1761 Gentleman's Mag. May 232/1 Grief, Pow'rless of utterance, come heart-busting.

1925 Amer. Mercury Dec. 492/1 Not rib-busting, perhaps, but comedy of a very fair sort.

1953 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Aug. 519/3 It remained for ‘dam-busting’ Lancasters of the Royal Air Force..to deliver the coup de grâce.

1967 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 23 Aug. 30/3 ‘Barefoot’, the story of a young couple's first week of marriage in a lung-busting sixth floor brownstone, is still a gem.

1984 Washington Post 25 June b5/1 Fruit should be pureed so that it won't freeze into hard, tooth-busting blocks.

1991 Britain's Gulf War 15/1 Around 2,000 up-to-the-minute aircraft ranging from the massive B52 bombers to tank-busting helicopters.

1996 Face Apr. 36/1 Smith..trains his class through a rigorous course of falls, jumps and rolls in preparation for appearances in Hollywood's ever-increasing number of hyper-realistic limb-busting action shots.

2004 S. R. Shaber Big Funeral ii. 28 He was finishing up a brain-busting exam for North Carolina History.

单词	dam-busting
释义	> as lemmas dam-busting a. Forming adjectives designating something which bursts or breaks something denoted by the first element (literally or figuratively), as belly-busting, brain-busting, heart-busting, tooth-busting, etc. Also (chiefly Military slang): forming adjectives designating weaponry, a vehicle, etc., used to attack or destroy something denoted by the first element, as dam-busting, tank-busting, etc. Cf. -buster comb. form 1, 3.More established compounds of this nature are treated at the first element or as separate entries: see ball-busting adj., blockbusting adj., clot-busting adj. at clot n. Additions, etc. ΚΠ 1761 Gentleman's Mag. May 232/1 Grief, Pow'rless of utterance, come heart-busting. 1925 Amer. Mercury Dec. 492/1 Not rib-busting, perhaps, but comedy of a very fair sort. 1953 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Aug. 519/3 It remained for ‘dam-busting’ Lancasters of the Royal Air Force..to deliver the coup de grâce. 1967 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 23 Aug. 30/3 ‘Barefoot’, the story of a young couple's first week of marriage in a lung-busting sixth floor brownstone, is still a gem. 1984 Washington Post 25 June b5/1 Fruit should be pureed so that it won't freeze into hard, tooth-busting blocks. 1991 Britain's Gulf War 15/1 Around 2,000 up-to-the-minute aircraft ranging from the massive B52 bombers to tank-busting helicopters. 1996 Face Apr. 36/1 Smith..trains his class through a rigorous course of falls, jumps and rolls in preparation for appearances in Hollywood's ever-increasing number of hyper-realistic limb-busting action shots. 2004 S. R. Shaber Big Funeral ii. 28 He was finishing up a brain-busting exam for North Carolina History. extracted from -bustingcomb. form < as lemmas
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