| 单词 | brain-breaking |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbrain-breaking brain-breaking adj. ΚΠ 1664 T. Killigrew Comedies & Trag. 117 A pox on such brain-breaking thoughts. 1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 86 All this to purchase the aiery commendations of a few understanding Readers, which at most is but a poor reward for all their fastings, watchings, confinements, and brain-breaking tortures of Invention. 1778 Trip to Melasge II. xxv. 184 Any skull-cracking, brain-breaking, puzzling..folio. 1892 T. A. Pinkerton New Saint's Trag. iii. 39 All concerned had jumped at ‘Posy’ for the next arrival, and had fervently hoped there was to be no more of such brain-breaking work. 1908 B. Harraden Interplay xiv. 155 Was she perhaps reading that brain-breaking volume of Political Economy? 2007 Daily Record (Nexis) 2 Nov. 71 Other games give you tooled-up uber-hunks, brain-breaking puzzles, speed, action and blood. < as lemmas |
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