单词 | water-soaken |
释义 | water-soakenadj. Now rare. = water-soaked adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [adjective] > with water water-washena1400 water soggen1440 water-soaken1625 water-soaked1711 1625 W. Lisle tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Noe in tr. Part of Du Bartas 33 No sooner had the Sunne..Dry'd with rebounding beame the water-soaken lands [Fr. la terre grosse d'eaux], But he..Plowes vp with sweating brow his mothers fruitfull backe. 1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) ii. ccclxxxvii. 1000 The wilde Angelica, which seldome growes in gardens, but is found to grow plentifully in water soken grounds and cold moist medowes. 1791 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse §172 I laid them in a damp place upon a water soaken brick. 1792 Jrnl. House of Commons 16 Aug. 47 372/2 Oak..frequently becomes so Water-soaken, as scarce ever to dry again. c1825 Houlston Tracts II. No. 47. 2 ‘Surely,’ said the farmers, as they looked over their..water-soaken grounds, ‘we shall have a fine August.’ 1889 Illustr. Police News 19 Oct. 3/1 They lay crouched together in the bottom of the boat in their water-soaken clothes. 1919 Munic. Jrnl. (N.Y.) 4 Jan. 12/1 A uniform surface from which all soil that is water-soaken or otherwise soft has been removed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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