wooze
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
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A liquid formed by leaching bark that is used for soaking hides during the tanning process.
— No person shall set the fats in tan hills, or other places, where the woozes or leather may take any unkind heats; or shall put any leather into any hot or warm woozes; or shall tan any hide or skin with any hot or warm woozes; [...]
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A state of wooziness.
— "Ah, but you are punishing yourself needlessly, Sonya, I think." Ilya said expansively, leaning a bit closer himself, and seeming to weave in her vision woozily, though whether she was woozing, or he was woozing, or both of them were sharing a friendly little wooze together, it was hard to tell.
动词 v.
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To soak hides in wooze.
— As to what we called crop leather, when the hides are woozed enough for laying away I have a very strong wooze drawn from them.
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To cause to feel woozy.
— Sebastian is too woozed by alcoholism to make any formal contribution to politics, but he makes a special trip to Germany to convince a German friend to abandon Naziism.
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To become woozy or sleepy.
— My head was feeling strange, woozing in and woozing out.
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To move or function while in a daze.
— Dismissing Zing's desertion, Sheri pitched in so intensively that she barely woozed through the final afternoon, like a setting hen on H-day, feeling life stir in the eggs.
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To speak while intoxicated; to say in a slurred voice.
— "Click Dark," woozed Amber, "nice to meet ya."
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To gradually go in and out of mental focus.
— This was woozing through my mind and the voices spoke again.
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To move sinuously.
— He had floated up from the bottom and he grinned at us horribly from his bullet-shattered skull as he slowly woozed away from us downstream leaving a wake of stinking bubbles behind him.
词源
词源 1
From Middle English wosen, from Old English wōsan, variant of wēsan. Doublet of ooze.
词源 2
From Middle English wosen, from Old English wōsan, variant of wēsan. Doublet of ooze.
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