lose caste

动词 v.
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英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To lose one's status as a member of one's caste of birth. South-Asia
    — 1808, “Moral Character of the Hindoos, in Their Interior Department” in The Literary Panorama, London: C. Taylor, Volume 3, p. 141, Attachment to a master, a family, or a government of a different religion, is that which cannot be produced in the mind of a Hindoo, while under the power of his Gooroo or his Depta. But if they lose caste, and embrace Christianity, not by force, but from pure conviction, they become other men.
  2. To fall in social standing; to suffer a loss of status or reputation.
    — He was degraded in their eyes; he had lost caste and station before the very paupers; he had fallen from all the height and pomp of beadleship to the lowest depth of the most snubbed hen-peckery.

词形变化

loses caste present,singular,third-person losing caste participle,present lost caste participle,past lost caste past
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