forswollen

词形变化

more forswollen 比较级 most forswollen 最高级

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Excessively swollen; (figuratively) puffed up with pride; boastful; enraged.

    废旧

    mid-1400s, John Conlee (ed.), Prose Merlin, Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1998, “The Tournament at Logres; King Lot and his Sons; and Morgan and Gyomar,” p. 285, line 315, “Ha, boyes!”" quod the kynge, “thow art fell and forswollen. […] ”

    Whilst hee that earst against the Sunne did beake His foreswolne poysonous bulke, doth vanquishd lie In his owne filth:

词源

From Middle English forswollen, for-swollen, forswellen, equivalent to for- + swollen.

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