| 单词 | weed-ridden |
| 释义 | > as lemmasweed-ridden c. Instrumental, as weed-choked, weed-covered, weed-ridden, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > valued plants and weeds > [adjective] > affected by weed(s) weed1784 weed-choked1870 weed1879 weed-covered1953 weed-ridden1968 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [adjective] > hidden > by vegetation weed1818 1784 D. Robertson Poems 62 Then why o'erflow Soft Pity's tears the weed-grown urn? 1799 T. Campbell Pleasures of Hope & Other Poems ii. 201 O'er each Runic altar, weed-entwined. 1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 6 Weed-hidden roots. 1857 P. H. Gosse Omphalos viii. 216 This weed-fringed tide-pool. 1870 H. Macmillan True Vine (1872) v. 188 The idleness of another is seen in the meagre, weed-choked produce of his neglected fields. 1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous iii. 57 The weed-hung flukes of the little anchor. 1898 O. Wilde Ballad of Reading Gaol 12 Every day Crawled like a weed-clogged wave. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 667 In loose allwool garments..trundling a weedladen wheelbarrow. 1938 W. de la Mare Memory & Other Poems 29 Roofless and eyeless, weed-sodden, dank, old, cold. 1953 L. Kuper Living in Towns 300 Waste land and weed-covered pit banks. 1968 E. A. McCourt Saskatchewan xvii. 195 The inscriptions on the wooden crosses in the weed-ridden settlement graveyard. 2001 P. D. James Death in Holy Orders (2002) 8 [I] saw..the dark lines of the old weed-encrusted groynes crumbling into the sea. < as lemmas |
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