befog

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To envelop in fog or smoke.
    — Clouds of the most expensive incense befog the chancel […]
  2. To confuse, mystify (a person); to make less acute or perceptive, to cloud (a person’s faculties).
    — 1871, Carl Schurz, Speech in the U.S. Senate, 27 January, 1871, in Frederic Bancroft (ed.), Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz, New York: Putnam, 1913, Volume II, p. 151, The voice of interested sycophancy is apt to fill their ears and to befog their judgment.
  3. To obscure, make less clear (a subject, issue, etc.).
    — How they had managed to befog the subject! What elaborate show-structures they had built up, with no result but to obscure the horizon!

词形变化

befogs present,singular,third-person befogging participle,present befogged participle,past befogged past

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi
Proto-Germanic *bider.
Proto-Germanic *bi-
Proto-West Germanic *bi-
Old English be-
Middle English bi-
English be-
English fog
English befog
From be- + fog.
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