单词 | battle-spent |
释义 | > as lemmasbattle-spent C1. Instrumental with past participle, as battle-grimed, battle-hardened, battle-scarred, battle-slain, battle-spent (exhausted with fighting), battle-tried, battle-weary, battle-writhen (twisted in struggle) adjs. ΚΠ 1859 Ld. Tennyson Elaine in Idylls of King 189 Battle-writhen arms and mighty hands. 1865 O. W. Holmes To Gen. Grant Our leaders battle-scarred. 1905 L. Binyon Penthesilea 38 So now the battle-weary Greeks prepared their meal. 1907 Daily Chron. 14 Oct. 4/4 Winchelsea sees battle-grimed French and Spaniards scale her walls. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 18 Jan. 3/1 These men fought in the ranks of battle-tried battalions. 1945 Finito! Po Valley Campaign 31 Exhausted, battle-weary crews. 1949 A. Koestler Promise & Fulfilm. iii. i. 299 The battle-hardened workers of the Soviet Union. < as lemmas |
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