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单词 seaworthy
释义

seaworthy

adjective

sea·​wor·​thy ˈsē-ˌwər-t͟hē How to pronounce seaworthy (audio)
: fit or safe for a sea voyage
a seaworthy ship
seaworthiness
ˈsē-ˌwər-t͟hē-nəs How to pronounce seaworthy (audio)
noun

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Cardejon would have used the available resources — maybe the hard wood of a doongon or barayong tree, which craftsmen cut under moonlit skies — to build seaworthy vessels that could carry goods between islands. Tim Carman, Washington Post, 11 July 2022 The 19-foot vessel sustained light damage to its bow but was still seaworthy. Sarah Rumpf, Fox News, 28 July 2022 To make the Everglades the most seaworthy Bronco, Ford raised the vent tubes for both axles, the transmission, and the transfer case. Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 28 June 2022 Yet the policy had a perverse effect: With their larger, more seaworthy wooden boats being destroyed, human smugglers shifted to using cheaper, more dangerous rubber dinghies. New York Times, 2 Mar. 2022 And those big support ships may, one day, just disappear without a trace, swallowed up in the vast, lonely sea, leaving their charges—often smaller, cheaper and less-seaworthy—to their own devices. Craig Hooper, Forbes, 7 May 2022 Costa’s designers snuck in seaworthy features without compromising aesthetics. Mike Steere, Outside Online, 27 May 2022 If Thorn’s metal craft don’t look especially seaworthy, that just adds to the sense of alarm. Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022 The two women, who became best friends in college, have given Nico enough money to make his dilapidated boat seaworthy. Oline H. Cogdill, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Jan. 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1798, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

seaworthy

adjective

sea·​wor·​thy ˈsē-ˌwər-t͟hē How to pronounce seaworthy (audio)
: fit or safe for a sea voyage
a seaworthy vessel
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