hew

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Destruction by cutting down or hewing. countable,obsolete,rare,uncountable
    — Of whom he makes such hauocke and such hew, / That swarmes of damned soules to hell he sends
  2. Hue; colour. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — […] while the youthful hew Sits on thy skin like morning dew
  3. Shape; form. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — He taught to imitate that Lady trew, Whose semblance she did carrie under feigned hew.
动词 v.
  1. To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down. ambitransitive
    — Hew them to pieces, hack their bones asunder[…]
  2. To shape; to form. transitive
    — to hew out a sepulchre
  3. To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to. US,transitive
    — Few men measured up to his standard of righteousness; he hewed to the line.

词形变化

hews present,singular,third-person hewing participle,present hewed past hew past,rare hewn participle,past hewed participle,past hewen archaic,participle,past hews plural hews plural

词汇关系

衍生词
behew forehew forhew hewable hew down hewer hewn hew out mishew rehew rough-hew tohew unhewed

词源

词源 1
From Middle English hewen, from Old English hēawan, from Proto-West Germanic *hauwan, from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *kewh₂- (“to strike, hew, forge”).
Cognate to West Frisian houwe (“to hew”), Cimbrian hauan (“to dig”), Dutch houwen (“to hew”), German hauen (“to hew”), Luxembourgish haen (“to chop”), Danish hugge (“to hew”), Faroese høgga (“to hew”), Icelandic höggva (“to hew”), Norwegian Bokmål hogge, hugge (“to hew”), Norwegian Nynorsk hogga (“to hew”), Swedish hugga (“to hew”).
Sense 3 derives from the phrase hew to the line (literally “cut evenly with an axe or saw”).
词源 2
See hue.
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