| 单词 | time-bleached | 
| 释义 | > as lemmastime-bleached  (a)   Instrumental, as in  time-battered,  time-bewasted,  time-bleached,  time-stained,  time-wasted, etc., (adjectives).Frequently with reference to deterioration or other change brought about by the passage of (a long period of) time; in some of these compounds the meaning tends towards ‘that has been —— over time’.Some of the more established or distinctive compounds of this type are treated separately. ΚΠ 1597    W. Shakespeare Richard II  i. iii. 214  				My oile-dried lampe, and time bewasted  light.       View more context for this quotation a1628    F. Greville Life of Sidney 		(1651)	 xv. 199  				Those time-authorized assemblies. 1658    H. Crompton Pierides xci. 128  				Time-wasted flesh, and wrinkled brows Are no fit objects for their bows. 1729    R. Savage Wanderer v. 44  				Time-batter'd Tow'rs frown awful in Decay. 1765    W. Stevenson Vertumnus in  Orig. Poems I. 119  				Round and round the bat incessant flits, Yon time-rent wall, with moss-tufts overgrown. a1771    T. Gray Agrippina in  Poems 		(1775)	 133  				The slacken'd sinews of time-wearied age. 1779    H. Cowley Albina  iv. 66  				Why must I tear the pillow..from thy time-blanch'd head? 1800    E. Bartell Obs. Town of Cromer viii. 78  				Its moss-grown thatch and time-stained walls are..in perfect harmony with the objects that surround it. 1806    A. Seward Let. 27 Jan. 		(1811)	 VI. 242  				Dr Parr's articulation..is now, by the loss of his teeth, become almost wholly unintelligible to my time-dulled ear. 1810    R. M. Roche Houses Osma & Almeria viii. 103  				The winds whistled shrill, through his time-bleached locks. 1839    H. T. Tuckerman Isabel 117  				Numerous lights fell on the upturned face of the novice, and the time-withered lineaments of the abbess. 1843    Bentley's Misc. 14 297  				The time-gnawn, mouldering walls Of man-deserted gothic halls. 1870    Proc. N.Y. Hist. Soc. June 6  				He..brought out the time-blurred lines and tints of some neglected Watteau. 1924    W. de la Mare Ding Dong Bell 56  				Those flat and spotted fungi that rise in a night on time-soiled birch trees. 1938    H. T. Lowe-Porter tr.  T. Mann Joseph in Egypt I. ii. 94  				Wide-eyed and cruel, with time-gnawn nose,..it gazed across at its river. 1985    S. Penman Here be Dragons  i. iii. 43  				His sisters, who had been bartered as child brides to foreign princes, were little more to him now than time-dimmed memories. 2007    Esquire Sept. 130/2  				[She] plays a time-ravaged witch called Lamia. < as lemmas  | 
	
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