英语词汇“flaw”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

flaw

释义

a blemish or imperfection

a usu hidden defect, e.g. a crack, that may cause failure under stress

a flaw in a bar of steel

a weakness in reasoning, etc

a flaw in his argument

a fault in a legal paper that may invalidate it

flawless adj

flawlessly adv

flawlessness noun

[Middle English, in the sense ‘snowflake, splinter’, prob of Scandinavian origin]

to become or cause (something) to make or become blemished or imperfect

literary

a sudden gust of wind; a squall

‘mid the gust, the whirlwind and the flaw of rain and hail-stones — Keats

a spell of stormy weather

patch a wall to expel the winter's flaw — Shakespeare

archaic a violent attack or outburst of fury

She … on him ran with furious rage … but he … from that first flaw him selfe right well defended — Spenser

[Old Norse flaga gust, attack]

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