单词 | frostbite |
释义 | frostbiten. 1. Injury to body tissues caused by exposure to extreme cold, typically affecting the extremities and often involving only the skin, which initially becomes white and hard, but in severe cases resulting in gangrene of deeper tissues and loss of the affected parts. Also: an instance, case, or area of this. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > frost-bite frostbiting1562 frostnip1618 frostbite1798 1798 Weekly Mag. 31 Mar. 264/2 Blackhead's Essence of Pitchfork, An easy, effectual, and radical cure for lock-jam, gout, broken shins,..frost-bite, [etc.]. 1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 57 Inflammation accompanying the state which is usually denominated frost-bite. 1823 W. Scoresby Jrnl. Voy. Northern Whale-fishery 44 Some of the sailors suffered considerably from partial frost-bites. 1876 A. Arnold in Contemp. Rev. June 42 One does not look for frostbite in Ispahan. 1933 A. G. Macdonell England, their England i. 3 A good way of checking the alarming wastage of man-power through influenza, frost-bite, and trench-feet, with all their accompanying opportunities for malingering, would be to house the front-line troops in pill-boxes. 1974 R. Swale Children of Cape Horn (1975) xxiv. 218 In spite of being capsized and dismasted in the Southern Ocean and suffering badly from frostbite he had managed to jury-rig the boat and get to port. 2011 Time Out N.Y. 15 Dec. 36/1 The North Pole is a terrible place to try pole dancing—frostbite in some very delicate places would be a constant issue. 2. Damage caused to plants or their parts by exposure to extreme cold; an instance of this. Now rare. ΚΠ 1846 Amer. Agriculturist Aug. 247/2 What is Blight?—It is a sun-stroke, or a frost-bite, a plague of insects, or of fungi, [etc.]. 1865 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1861–4 5 570 The bitter, smoky taste..arises wholly from frost-bite. 1870 Country Gentleman's Mag. 4 431/1 But suppose a great proportion of the shoots are taken off or disbudded, and a frost-bite should overtake the remainder? 1931 Bull. Misc. Information (Royal Bot. Gardens, Kew) 166 The diseased appearance of some of the branches..was found to be the result of frost bite. 1992 Amer. Orchid Soc. Bull. 61 375/2 I do not know what to do with cattleyas that get frost bite. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). frostbitev. 1. transitive. To damage, injure, or kill by exposure to extreme cold; spec. to affect (a person, plant, part of the body, etc.) with frostbite; (also) to acquire frostbite in (a part of the body). Frequently in passive. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > make cold [verb (transitive)] > affect or injure with intense cold or frost frostbite1574 frostnip1600 singe1600 freezea1616 frost1623 touch1794 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > afflict with or cause a skin disorder [verb (transitive)] > frost-bite frostbite1856 1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Job lxi. 287/2 If his floures bee frostbitten, or if anye tempest light vpon them, all is caste downe. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 62v Those blossomes which peepe foorth in the beginning of the Spring, are frost-bitten and die, ere they can come to be fruite. 1622 ‘Jack Dawe’ Vox Graculi 10 The weather likewise shall be so vnseasonably cold, that diuers for feare of being frost-bit, shall craftily sit all day at Cardes and Tables. 1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner i. iii. vii. 135 All their Peach-Blossoms are frost-bitten every year. 1749 Acct. Voy. for Discov. North-west Passage II. 13 The Weather was so sharp as several of the People were Frost-bit. 1751 C. Gist Jrnl. 20 Dec. (1893) 72 My Son had the Misfortune to have his Feet frost-bitten. 1811 J. Black tr. A. von Humboldt Polit. Ess. New Spain II. 444 A traveller who passes through a country in which the maize has been frost bit finds neither egg nor poultry. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxix. 403 Morton has frost-bitten both his heels. 1916 G. Taylor With Scott iv. 202 Conduction along a big nail in the leather boots had frost-bitten my toe. 1986 N. A. M. Rodger Wooden World (1988) ii. 54 Captain Stancombe..had narrowly escaped when his ship was burnt under him, broken his skull in a fall, and frostbitten his ears conning his ship among icebergs. 2010 P. L. Headlund Sexy at Sixty iii. 17 The ice applied directly to his skin the night before had frost bitten his skin. 2. transitive. To have a chilling, numbing, or hurtful effect on (a feeling, the heart, etc.). Usually in passive. Cf. frost n. 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > make emotionally unfeeling [verb (transitive)] > deaden or dull the emotions stupefy?a1425 dullc1440 benumbc1485 slumber?1533 extinguish1540 extinct1542 numb1561 damp1570 hebetate1574 daunt1581 frostbite1593 hebete1597 blunt1600 unedgea1625 engross1626 astonish1635 consopite1647 bate1649 opiate1650 blura1653 hebescate1657 torpefy1808 dozena1810 dullify1838 hebetize1845 chloroform1849 narcotize1852 sodden1863 vastate1892 the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > make emotionally unfeeling [verb (transitive)] > make cold coolc1330 frostbite1593 disinflame?1611 freezea1616 colden1860 1593 T. Lodge Phillis sig. Lv Suborner of contempt, lasciuious blowse, By whom my ioyes were blasted and frost-bitten. 1611 J. Montague in T. Coryate Crudities sig. g3v Emilia faire thou didst fro'st-bit, And shee inflamed thy melting wit. 1819 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) IV. 905 O that you could feel the wretchedness of having your heart starved by selfishness and frost-bitten by moral frigidity! 1872 ‘G. Hamilton’ Woman's Worth & Worthlessness iii. 50 My budding ambition was instantaneously frostbitten by her branching off into a disquisition on sausage-meat. 1913 Amer. Mag. Oct. 17/2 I guess we're old enough so's our morals won't get frostbitten by this. 2012 I. Tregillis Coldest War iii. 90 Better than staying at home, frostbitten by Liv's icy hatred. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [verb (transitive)] > white frost1596 frostbite?1605 hoar1605 snow1605 the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > whitening > make white [verb (transitive)] whiteOE emblanch1393 blank1484 whiten1552 frost1596 albify1599 frostbite?1605 hoar1605 dealbate1623 impearl1640 marble1658 bewhite1678 whiten1699 rewhiten1725 bewhiten1810 ermine1825 powder1890 ?1605 J. Davies Wittes Pilgrimage sig. H2 Many Winters haue Frost-bit my Haires. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > refresh or invigorate [verb (transitive)] > specific coolc1330 aventc1440 recreatec1530 frostbite1667 over-inform1681 1667 S. Pepys Diary 2 Jan. (1974) VIII. 1 My wife up, and with Mrs. Pen to walk in the fields to frost-bite themselfs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1798v.1574 |
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