单词 | suffossion |
释义 | † suffossionn. Obsolete. rare. Digging under or up; undermining. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > earth-moving, etc. > [noun] > digging or excavating > digging under underminingc1380 underdelvingc1440 suffossion1623 undercutting1877 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Suffossion, an undermining. c1625 Bp. J. Hall St. Paul's Combat i, in Wks. (1634) II. 440 Those suffossions of walls [etc.]. 1648 Bp. J. Hall Select Thoughts 98 What is it to tell of the suffossion of her vineyards? vastation of her tents? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1623 |
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