aberrate

动词 v.
/ˈæb.ə.ɹeɪt/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To go astray; to diverge; to deviate (from); deviate from. intransitive
    — 1765, Peter Dollond, letter to James Short dated 7 February, 1765, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Volume 55, London, 1766, p. 55, […] the surfaces of the concave lens may be so proportioned as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex lens, near the axis […]
  2. To distort; to cause aberration of. transitive
    — 1893, Bret Harte, Sally Dows, Chapter 6, in Sally Dows and Other Stories, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, p. 104, He saw them through no aberrating mist of tenderness or expediency—but with the single directness of the man of action.

词形变化

aberrates present,singular,third-person aberrating participle,present aberrated participle,past aberrated past

词汇关系

词源

From Latin aberrātus, perfect passive participle of aberrō (“wander, stray or deviate from”), formed from ab (“from, away from”) + errō (“stray”).
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