To bury in gravel or sand; to overwhelm with gravel; hence figurative to suppress, stifle. Obsolete.
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释义 | the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > by burying or submerging (4) gravel1577 To bury in gravel or sand; to overwhelm with gravel; hence figurative to suppress, stifle. Obsolete. entomb1593 transferred and figurative. To enclose as in a tomb; to overwhelm; to bury. Also absol. immerge1644 figurative. To ‘drown’, ‘submerge’. Obsolete. snow1880 With under: To bury in snow; figurative to submerge, overwhelm, overpower, etc. Originally U.S. |
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