单词 | reprobe |
释义 | reprobev. transitive. To probe again; to probe for a second or further time. ΚΠ 1835 J. S. Knowles Wife i. iii. 22 You would not thus reprobe the fester'd wound, And make it bleed afresh. 1896 W. H. Hudson Stud. in Interpr. 131 To try every circumstance, to probe and reprobe every feeling, to go behind every judgement, such is the habit of his mind. 1960 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 29 161/2 Current national and international events are far too significant to justify the researcher's use of time in reprobing interesting but unenlightening aspects of the past. 1977 Behavioural Ecol. & Sociobiol. 2 249 Bees initiating foraging sometimes spent several minutes at each rewarding flower encountered, which they probed and reprobed numerous times. 2003 J. Pevsner Bioinformatics & Functional Genomics vi. 179 In a typical scenario, a filter is probed with one sample, stripped, then reprobed with a second sample. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1835 |
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