| 单词 | life-preserving |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslife-preserving life-preserving adj. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > preservation from injury or destruction > [adjective] > life life-preserving?1594 ?1594 M. Drayton Peirs Gaueston sig. K2 His gummy life-preseruing tears. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) v. i. 84 Life-preseruing rest. View more context for this quotation 1783 J. Hanway Proposal for County Naval Free-schools 57 The celebrated life-preserving philosopher the Reverend Doctor Hales. 1819 Times 2 July 4/1 (advt.) To..those going abroad, are recommended C. Kendall's Life-preserving Air Jackets... Repeated exhibitions..have afforded the most satisfactory proofs of the buoyancy of the machine. 1895 S. R. Hole Little Tour Amer. 24 Life-preserving belts. 1943 Man 43 37/2 Sometimes it is placed, whole, in water to endow the water with life-preserving power. 2002 D. DeGrazia Animal Rights iii. 43 Pain's unpleasantness provides the motivation for adaptive, life-preserving responses. < as lemmas |
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