offthrow

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of throwing off; (by extension) liberation countable,uncountable
    — The theory of a rise of a dome of strata from beneath the sea and the offthrow of the waters on all sides from that dome, their escape through lateral fractures in the upheaved chalk, together with a slow wearing back of the fractured and denuded edges of the chalk in the form of cliffs, […]
  2. That which is thrown off (i.e. discarded, ejected, or emitted) countable,uncountable
    — […] comparatively speaking, few are convinced of, or perhaps acquainted with the fact, that not only do the bed-clothes intercept and retain a large proportion of this offthrow, but that it penetrates both beds and mattresses, which actually absorb a large proprtion of it, […]
动词 v.
  1. To throw or cast off (all senses) ambitransitive
    — Thorns of the flesh in childhood man offthrows, Or passions such in headlong youth he knows; […]

词形变化

offthrows plural off-throw alternative offthrows present,singular,third-person offthrowing participle,present offthrew past offthrown participle,past off-throw alternative

词源

词源 1
From off- + throw.
词源 2
From off- + throw.
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