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.

ΘΚΠ

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).

单词	accablé
释义	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. ΘΚΠ 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). < adj.1697
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