spiriten

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To endue, enliven, or raise the spirit of; liven. ambitransitive,dialectal
    — Some traders would give 'em shots, feed 'em dynamite, make these old dead horses spiriten up. Take a piece of a stick of dynamite and mash it up in their feed. They say it'll spiriten 'em up. I've tried it, but I didn't think it done much good.

词形变化

spiritens present,singular,third-person spiritening participle,present spiritened participle,past spiritened past

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys-der.?
Latin spīrō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin spīritus
Old French espiritbor.
Middle English spirit
English spirit
English -en
English spiriten
From spirit + -en.
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