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单词 incipient
释义
incipientin‧cip‧i‧ent /ɪnˈsɪpiənt/ adjective [only before noun] formal Word Origin
WORD ORIGINincipient
Origin:
1600-1700 Latin present participle of incipere; INCEPTION
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • an incipient drinking problem
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • I am pretty sure that these noises do not proceed from incipient compression failures.
  • Some assiduously fill notebooks with writing: incipient novelists or thesis writers?
  • The incipient spouses are of course excited by the adventure, the new life, heralded by marriage.
  • The wind came howling down the street full of rain and incipient snow.
  • Yet despite these incipient industrial concentrations, the economy of Piedmont remained overwhelmingly agrarian and rural.
starting to happen or exist:  a sign of incipient madness
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