wiredraw
动词 v.
英文释义
动词 v.
- To stretch (some physical thing) out, as though drawing wire; to elongate.
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To stretch (words, a meaning etc.) to suit one's own purpose.
— I am of opinion that the uncontrouled libertie, that all men have to wrest, dissipate, and wyredraw a word so religious and important, to so many severall idiomes, hath much more danger than profit following it.
词源
From wire + draw.
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