| 单词 | husband |
| 释义 | husband (once / 34 pages) nv A husband is a married man. Your grandfather might joke that he and your grandmother have been husband and wife for so long because she has the patience of a saint and he is deaf as a post. The word husband comes from the Old Norse hūsbōndi, where hūs meant house and bōndi meant dweller. As a verb, husband means to conserve resources and use them frugally. Because of the flooding in the area, roads are cut off and everyone is being asked to husband their supplies. This conservation of resources sense of husband also occurs in the related noun husbandry. WORD FAMILYhusband: ex-husband, husbanded, husbanding, husbandly, husbands+/ex-husband: ex-husbands USAGE EXAMPLESNorine was released after two weeks, but her husband was held in the immigration-detention facility for another two months, including two days in solitary confinement. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) She put teaching on the back burner and helped her husband run his clock business. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) When my husband, a veteran of the Iraq war, strangled me to the point of unconsciousness, I thought I was the only one. Salon(Jan 02, 2017) 1n a married man; a male partner in a marriage Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper hubby, married man married woman, wife a married woman; a man's partner in marriage benedick, benedict a newly married man (especially one who has long been a bachelor) cuckolda man whose wife committed adultery family mana man whose family is of major importance in his life house husband, househusbanda husband who keeps house while his wife earns the family income uxoricidea husband who murders his wife wittolan archaic term for a cuckold who knows about his wife's infidelity but tolerates it better half, married person, mate, partner, spouse a person's partner in marriage 2v use cautiously and frugally Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper conserve, economise, economize blow, squander, waste spend thoughtlessly; throw away blowspend lavishly or wastefully on retrench tighten one's belt; use resources carefully preserve, save to keep up and reserve for personal or special use |
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