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单词 accablé
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accabléadj.

Brit. /akəˈbleɪ/, U.S. /ˌɑkəˈbleɪ/
Forms: 1600s accablées (plural, designating women, after French feminine plural form), 1700s– accablé.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French accablé.
Etymology: < French accablé, past participle of accabler accable v.
Now rare.
In predicative use: overwhelmed, crushed.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > crushing or suppressing > crushed or overwhelmed
underthrast?1402
revocate?1440
overwhelmed1630
accablé1697
waterlogged1795
whelmeda1821
choked1855
1697 J. Vanbrugh Provok'd Wife i. 10 'Tis thus I am importun'd every morning, Madamoiselle. Pray how do the French Ladies when they are thus Accablées?
1785 J. Adams Let. 7 June in T. Jefferson Papers (1953) VIII. 183 I find I shall be accablé with Business and Ceremony together.
1863 Dublin Univ. Mag. Dec. 659/2 Jenny was accablé, prostrated at the image of the widow.
1896 A. Conan Doyle Rodney Stone xxii. 356 I confess that I am somewhat accablé by all that has befallen us.
1916 G. Pyke To Ruhleben & Back v. 61 When..I looked over my shoulder..there was the Mutton Chop gradually turning a dull purple in the light—paralysed—overcome—dumbfounded—accablé—annihilated.
1930 R. Aldington Roads to Glory 92 Arthur Constable was at any rate accablé, knocked all of a heap.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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