offthrow
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
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The act of throwing off; (by extension) liberation
— 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, […]
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That which is thrown off (i.e. discarded, ejected, or emitted)
— […] 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.
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To throw or cast off (all senses)
— Thorns of the flesh in childhood man offthrows, Or passions such in headlong youth he knows; […]
词源
词源 1
From off- + throw.
词源 2
From off- + throw.
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