sweb

词形变化

swebs 复数 swebs swebbing swebs 三单 swebbing 现在分词 swebbed 过去式 swebbed 过去分词

别名

swab

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A swoon.

    英国 方言
v.
  1. 1.

    To swoon; faint.

    英国 方言 不及物

    Hoo swebbed, all droked in sweat, frae the heat o' the desert sun.

词源

From Middle English swebben (“to sleep, swoon”), from Old English swebban (“to put to sleep, lull, kill”), from From Proto-West Germanic *swabbjan, from Proto-Germanic *swabjaną, *swēbijaną (“to lull, put to sleep”), from Proto-Indo-European *swep-, *sup- (“to sleep”). Cognate with Icelandic svefja (“to put to sleep, lull, soothe”), Latin sōpiō (“put to sleep, lull”, verb). Related to sweven.

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