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单词 wiredrawn
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wiredrawn

[ wahyuhr-drawn ]
/ ˈwaɪərˌdrɔn /

adjective

drawn out long and thin like a wire.
(of ideas, comparisons, etc.) finely spun; extremely intricate; minute.

Origin of wiredrawn

First recorded in 1595–1605; wire + drawn

Words nearby wiredrawn

wire cloth, wire cutter, wired, wired equivalent privacy, wiredraw, wiredrawn, wire entanglement, wireframe, wire fraud, wire gauge, wire gauze
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Example sentences from the Web for wiredrawn

  • Decadence is foreshadowed, but not yet is the art academic and wiredrawn.

    How France Built Her Cathedrals|Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly
  • He fails to make it either straightforward or appropriate, and declines into the super-subtle or wiredrawn.

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  • They did not consist of a series of wiredrawn dissertations upon isolated texts.

    The Oxford Reformers|Frederic Seebohm
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