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单词 outtwine
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outtwinev.

Forms: see out- prefix and twine v.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: out adv., twine v.1
Etymology: < out adv. + twine v.1 Compare untwine v., and with later use perhaps compare also intwine , variant of entwine v.
Obsolete.
transitive. = untwine v.
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > twist out or up
to wring outc1420
to wring upc1440
wrestc1450
outtwinea1500
throwa1500
outwrest1590
twine1600
screw1611
to ply out1668
wrench1726
the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > uncoiling or unwinding > uncoil or unwind [verb (transitive)] > untwine or untwist
untwinec1407
outtwinea1500
untwist1538
unknit1599
unravel1603
ravel1607
spret1832
a1500 (c1380) G. Chaucer To Rosemounde 11 Your seemly voys, that ye so smal outtwyne [rhyme tyne], Maketh my thoght in joye and blis habounde.
1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xi. xliii. 204 He stopt, and from the wound the reed out twinde, But left the iron in his flesh behinde.
a1729 E. Taylor Metrical Hist. Christianity (1962) 346 Now come again to this right Constantine Whom vile Romanus basely did out twine.
1829 J. G. Whittier Ambition in Study Whittier's Apprenticeship (1930) 193 Thy golden dreams of childhood—Thy thoughts of tender hours! Outtwine them from thy spirit now, They mar its sterner powers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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