单词 | trench-stale |
释义 | > as lemmastrench-stale trench-stale adj. (of a soldier in the First World War (1914–18)) weary of or exhausted by life in the trenches. ΚΠ 1915 R. Kipling France at War v. 55 One understood after a while the nightmare that lays hold of trench-stale men. 1918 F. Palmer Amer. in France x. 119 It was they who made any trench-stale American take a new interest in trenches and trench life. 1966 P. Dale in Listener 4 Aug. 165/2 That trench-stale breath, and gas swirling across the shell-holes there to choke you dead. < as lemmas |
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