单词 | repave |
释义 | repavev. transitive. To pave again; esp. to resurface (a road, floor, etc.) in this way. Frequently with with. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > paving and road-building > pave or build roads [verb (transitive)] > pave > again repave1611 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Rammattonare, to repaue with brickes. 1652 E. Benlowes Theophila i. l. 7 Blest then who shall..wash the bloody Stones With her own cursed Gore; repave them with her Bones. 1797 Communications to Board of Agric. I. iii. xv. 189 The greatest part of the turnpike road, two and a half miles in length, has been taken up, new modelled, and repaved, and made wider in several places where that was wanting. 1848 S. W. Williams Middle Kingdom II. 278 A sick man in Macao once made a vow that he would repave a bad piece of road if he recovered. 1868 in R. Anderson Missions Amer. Board (1870) IV. xlii. 424 The streets are being repaved and widened. 1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. II. 377 Chapel and ante-chapel were..repaved with large squares of stone. 1903 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 5 Sept. 23139/1 The London city authorities..intend to repave the Strand thoroughfare with 15,000 Powellized blocks. 1977 W. L. MacDonald in S. Kostof Architect 43 The men who re-paved streets disrupted during the laying or repairing of water mains are mentioned. 2006 J. M. Rogers Sinan ii. 31 The authorities decided to repave the whole courtyard with marble. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1611 |
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