unline

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To remove or separate the lining from.
    — as in the case of gout, a disease of the sufferer's own making, from excess of de-electrising food and drink, which uncoats and unlines the nerves, and thus leaves the nervous fluid, from casual circumstances, to almost lacerate the brain.
  2. To undergo a (now debunked) process in which the tissue of a plant separates into identical layers.
    — There is no instance of unlining which may not be as well explained by the theory of alternation.
  3. To empty (a purse). figuratively
    — I'll live by a pittance. Unline my purse, and use my person, and for my limbs, take the best in the bunch.
  4. To take out of (literal or figurative) alignment; to disconnect.
    — To-morrow doth Luxurio promise me He will unline himself from bitchery ;
  5. To remove or destroy one or more lines.
    — However, I am a Line, and they can't "unline" me very well. My soil is not good enough for a market-garden, and if it were, the surrounding inhabitants are too sparse to require so large a supply of the vegetable world.

词形变化

unlines present,singular,third-person unlining participle,present unlined participle,past unlined past

词源

From un- + line.
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