umbeset

词形变化

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释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To block, obstruct; act detrimentally toward.

    苏格兰 古体 方言

    […] , and pressing to have bereft them of their lives by umbesetting of the high gates to that effect at divers times of before, […]

    […] that king on one occasion, April 1535, having to grant a letter of protection in favour of him ‘and his wife and bairns’ against Sir Patrick Hepburn of Wauchtonne and thirty-four others for ‘umbesetting the highway for his slaughter.’

  2. 2.

    To overwhelm; cover completely.

    苏格兰 古体 方言

    The Opponents Umbeset with Trickery.

词源

From Middle English umbesetten (“to surround”), from Old English ymbsettan (“to set around, surround, beset, encompass”), from Proto-West Germanic *umbisattjan (“to set around, encompass”); equivalent to um- + beset or umbe- + set. Compare also Old English ymbsittan (“to sit around, surround”), Dutch omzetten (“to convert, transpose”), German umsetzen (“to move to another place, convert, transform, transplant, adjust, rearrange”).

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