单词 | reswell |
释义 | reswellv. intransitive. To swell again. Also occasionally transitive. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (intransitive)] > again recrease1521 reincrease1555 reswella1796 a1796 J. Macpherson Fingal (1813) 27 The wide dome echoed with the clang, And loud the lofty arches rang, The strain reswells, the youth appears. 1855 T. T. Lynch Rivulet xxix. 40 And all my hopes re-swell. 1873 A. Austin Rome or Death! 88 Sinking hearts with surging hope re-swell. 1886 M. F. Sheldon tr. G. Flaubert Salammbô vii. 153 The hundred Elders..rose to their feet, intoning a hymn, always repeating the same syllables and reswelling the sounds. 1955 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 232 488 The dried specimen would not reswell to its original condition. 1967 Pop. Mech. May 164/1 Wood fibers..didn't re-swell normally when wet. 2004 D. C. Gare in S. E. Melville Parasite Genomics Protocols 211 Overlay each strip..and leave to reswell at room temperature overnight. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.a1796 |
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