unsight

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Absence of sight; lack of vision uncountable
    — He tries to correct this unsight in the second stanza, asking a series of speculative (and rhetorical) questions about his cousin's life.
动词 v.
  1. To remove the sight of or from rare,transitive
    — The veil thus marks out the objects of both sexual and metaphysical desire as 'Scheingestalten'. A similar veil unsights the lover's gaze in Angelika as he perceives her 'wie durch einen Schleier' (S 1 116).
  2. To lose sight on a target
    — Just jeep as the Sten magazine emptied there came a single shot from the far end of the lane and in the same instant a bullet cracked over Butler's head.The jeep swung sharply to the right, unsighting him.

词形变化

unsights present,singular,third-person unsighting participle,present unsighted participle,past unsighted past

词汇关系

相关词
unsight unseen

词源

词源 1
From un- (“absence of”) + sight.
词源 2
From un- + sight.
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