| 单词 | breath-taker | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasbreath-taker  b.   With participles and agent nouns, forming compounds in which breath expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in  breath-stopping,  breath-sweetening (adjectives);  breath-giver,  breath-taker, etc. ΚΠ a1586    Sir P. Sidney Arcadia 		(1590)	  iii. x. sig. Oo  				Peace (wicked woman) peace, vnworthy to breathe, that doest not acknowledge the breath-giuer. 1602    J. Beaumont Metamorph. Tabacco sig. B  				Breath-giuing herbe, none other I inuoke To helpe me paint the praise of sugred smoke. 1791    J. Payne Universal Geogr. I. iv. 809/2  				The bone..is thus thrust through the cartilage of the nose, so entirely stops up both nostrils... These people..whilst they wear these breath-stoppers, must be incapable of any swift motion. 1878    E. B. Shuldham Clergyman's Sore Throat iii. 40  				The best runner is as a rule, other things being equal, the best breath-taker. 1979    N.Y. Times 10 Dec.  d11/2  				The breath-robbing occupational disease that doctors call pneumoconiosis. 1999    L. Mason Sweets & Sweet Shops 10  				Breath-sweetening lozenges. 2000    Diva May 38/1  				A converted stone wine-production cottage, with a breath-stopping view down the valley to the Mediterranean. < as lemmas | 
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