单词 | overroll |
释义 | overrollv. Chiefly poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > bring to the ground/lay low > roll over overrolla1522 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) x. vii. 50 A Rutilyane, Quham [he] fyrst ourrollyt with a mekill stane. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xiii. v. 50 With quhou gret fard ourrollyt and doun cast So hastely bene thir fatis, behald! 1884 T. Woolner Silenus i. v. 59 Where growled the leopards to the panthers' snarl, Or mumbled, over-rolled, and kicked at will. 2. transitive. To roll over the top of; to cover by rolling, to envelop. Also occasionally intransitive: to pass over with a rolling motion. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > wrap [verb (transitive)] > enfold or envelop befolda1000 umbefold14.. foldc1394 umbeclipa1395 involvea1420 overfold?1440 warp1513 overroll1548 encompass1553 invest1578 immantle1585 enrol1590 imply1590 circumvest1599 circumvestite1599 enfold1599 convolve1601 shadow1608 overlapc1612 enwreathe1620 obvele1654 obside1695 integument1883 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxx Theyr hosen of riche goldsatten called Aureate satten, ouerrouled to ye kne with Skarlet. 1845 W. J. Linton Bob-Thin 7 In the common wheel that over-rolls, Like Juggernaut, the prostrate shoals Of worshippers, with an oppression Most damnable. 1880 Ld. Tennyson Columbus in Wks. (1896) 527/1 The seas of our discovering over-roll Him and his gold. 1887 L. I. Guiney Chouan in White Sail 77 Spared, with a few as bold, Once the storm over-rolled, Allio, twelve years old, Crept from the clamor. 1892 Harper's Mag. Feb. 396 His honey tongue..overrolls the bitter of his words As..honey deadens nauseous drugs. 1901 J. W. De Forest Enchanted Voy. in Downing Legends xxxix. 201 A froth of silver overrolled The captain's wealth of curling gold. 1986 Statist. Sci. 1 273/2 An interactive data analysis system is unlikely to reach maturity within a single hardware cycle, and if you design a special purpose device, you will be overrolled by the next general purpose wave. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (transitive)] > turn over and over or roll > above something overroll1865 1865 Macmillan's Mag. July 275 Seeing the stars..overroll me. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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