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单词 retoss
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retossv.

Brit. /ˌriːˈtɒs/, U.S. /riˈtɔs/, /rəˈtɔs/, /riˈtɑs/, /rəˈtɑs/
Forms: see re- prefix and toss v.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: re- prefix, toss v.
Etymology: < re- prefix + toss v.
transitive. To toss back; (also) to toss again.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > throw [verb (transitive)] > again or back
retoss1549
to throw back1561
recast1585
reflirt1652
1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus Praise of Folie sig. Kivv What Invectives than are tossed and retossed betwixe theim.
1575 G. Gascoigne Wks. (1587) 203 She had..turned over and retossed every carde in this sequence.
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Riuoltolato, tossed, retossed.
1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Cymon & Iphigenia in Fables 554 The wand'ring Vessel drove before the Wind: Toss'd, and retoss'd, aloft, and then alow.
1745 T. Warton Eclog. v All around the roar of war was up, From rock to rock retost, from wood to wood.
1819 Q. Rev. Jan. 48 Tossed and retossed, had such been their fate, from the poles to the equator, the greater part of the several species..would have survived the shock.
1895 F. Thompson Sister Songs ii. 40 From cloud and tree and flower re-tossed in prismy spray.
1952 J. K. Howard Strange Empire iv. xv. 297 If the hunter was scraped off onto the head of a bull,..the animal would toss and retoss him in the air.
1999 H. Hutchinson Portfolio Indexing i. 23 A coin is tossed;..if it falls tails, the coin is retossed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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