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单词 verbiage
释义
verbiagever‧bi‧age /ˈvɜːbi-ɪdʒ $ ˈvɜːr-/ noun [uncountable] formal Word Origin
WORD ORIGINverbiage
Origin:
1700-1800 French, Old French verbier ‘to talk a lot’, from verbe; VERB
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Cut out the excess verbiage.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • After the first bout of verbiage I disappeared inside my room and slept for a day.
  • Comprehension of the modern city's altered state is rarely apparent in much of the verbiage currently expended on urban architecture.
  • Dominic has always had a flair for appropriating snippets of verbiage.
  • MacDonald, had he still been Prime Minister, would have lost the issue in verbiage and drowned himself in self-pity.
  • Nobody is seriously being invited to stand on top of the mountain of verbiage and get an overview.
speech or writing that has many unnecessary words in it:  meaningless verbiage
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