consound

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of several healing plants of the genera Symphytum, Consolida, Ajuga, Bellis, etc., especially comfrey. obsolete
    — a Plant commonly call’d the Great Consound or Comfrey; it has Stems which grow two or three Foot high: The Leaves are great, large, hairy, and of a dark Green; […] The small Consound is the most proper for healing of Wounds.
动词 v.
  1. Alternative form of confound: to damn alt-of,alternative,archaic,no-present-participle,rare
    — “You bad!” and Huckleberry began to snuffle too. “Consound it, Tom Sawyer, you’re just old pie, ’longside o’ what I am. Oh, lordy, lordy, lordy, I wisht I only had half your chance.”

词形变化

consounde alternative,obsolete consounded participle,past consounded past consounde alternative,obsolete

词源

词源 1
Inherited from the Middle English consoude, consowde, consol, consold, consaud, consaude, from the Old English consolde, borrowed from the Old French consolde, consoulde, consoude, inherited from the Latin cōnsolida (“common confrey”), so called because of its supposed healing power.
词源 2
See confound.
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