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单词 half-deify
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half-deify
(a) With verbs, as half-believe, half-deify, half-fill, half-laugh, half-make, half-murder, half-poison. Cf. half adv. 1c.
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1674 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 281 Men that half-hanged themselves to try how it was.
1730 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons 112 Locks That half-embrac'd them in a humid veil.
1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 60 Half-filling a bottle with water.
1834 H. Martineau Farrers of Budge-Row ii. 25 Two out of the remaining four halfstarted from their chair.
1848 Thackeray Vanity Fair xlv. 405 He half-murdered a ferret.
1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 192, I half believed that I should get above it.
a1850 M. Fuller Jrnl. in Woman in 19th Cent. (1855) iii. 343 Madame Recamier is half-reclining on a sofa.
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 60 The mind which before was..half-deified.
1878 J. N. Lockyer Stargazing 125 We shall not only halve, but half-halve, or quarter the aberration.
1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xxvii. 477 In Cicero Nature half-made a great man.
1924 J. M. Murry Voy. viii. 152 ‘I can't help it,’ she said, half-laughing at her own confession.
1952 C. P. Blacker Eugenics: Galton & After 293 The problem family is half-believed to be the product of the capitalistic system.
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