belly out

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To bulge or billow outward. intransitive
    — […] the Shape of the Hive is recommended to be like an Egg, with one End cut off, as People order it when they are about to eat it, it may consist of twelve Straw-Wreaths or Rowls, according to the Bigness of it; the three first Rowls of one Magnitude, and about a Foot or somewhat more in Diameter, the four next above them larger, bellying out a little each beyond his Fellow, that the Combs may be more firmly fastned […]
  2. To cause to bulge or billow outward. transitive
    — 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Happiness” (written in 1791), lines 30-31, The scene is changed and Fortune’s gale Shall belly out each prosperous sail.

词形变化

bellies out present,singular,third-person bellying out participle,present bellied out participle,past bellied out past
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary