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单词 mope
释义 mope
I. \ˈmōp\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: probably from obsolete mope fool, alteration of mop — more at moppet
intransitive verb
1. chiefly dialect Britain : to act in a distracted, bewildered, or stupid manner
 < a wretched and peevish fellow … to mope with his fat-brained followers so far out of his knowledge — Shakespeare >
2. : to give oneself up to brooding : become dull, dejected, or listless
 < doesn't pretend he is glad to be retired but he is not moping about it — Katharine Hamill >
 < the moping owl does to the moon complain — Thomas Gray >
3. : to move slowly or aimlessly : dawdle
 < even when the little woman does mope along in traffic — Paul Jones >
 < sadly turned his back on us, moped into the sea, and took to swimming — Harper's >
transitive verb
1. : to make dull, dejected, or listless : cause to brood
 < you must come about with me and not mope yourself — Thomas Hughes >
2. : to pass (as a period of time) in a dull, dejected, or listless state
 < directs him not to shut himself up in a cloister alone, there to mope … away his life — George Horne †1792 >
II. noun
(-s)
1. : one that mopes : a dull or gloomy person
 < meager, muse-rid mope, adust and thin — Alexander Pope >
2. mopes plural : a fit of depression : blues II
 < he's got the mopes because she's mad at him >
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