bush out
短语[网络] 挤出来
词形变化
释义与例句
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1.
To be bushy; to protrude in a thick tuft.
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2.
To become bushy; to grow into the form of a thick tuft.
不及物Removing the shoots on the side of the plant will encourage it to grow upward instead of bushing out.
1625, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes, Part 4, “Voyages To and About the Southerne America,” Chapter 13, p. 1481, [They] deformed their children with laying one boord on the fore-head, and another in the necke […] to make them broad-faced, shauing away the haire of the crowne and necke, and letting it growe on the sides, making it curle and bush out to more monstrositie.
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3.
To cause (something) to protrude in a thick tuft.
及物1763, George Colman, Terrae-Filius, Number 3, 7 July, 1763, in Prose on Several Occasions, London: T. Cadel, 1787, p. 249, Mr. FOLIO […] waited in his gold laced hat with a handkerchief of Mrs. FOLIO’s about his ears, till the return of his wig, properly bushed out and powdered,