whittle

FREQ #36440 ★☆☆☆☆

vt. 逐渐削薄, 削整, 削弱, 削减 vi. 削木头 n. 大刀, 屠刀

发音

UK /ˈwɪtəl/
UK /ˈwɪtʰl̩/
IE /ˈʍɪtəl/
SCOT /ˈʍɪtəl/
IE /ˈw̥ɪtʰl̩/
SCOT /ˈw̥ɪtʰl̩/
US /ˈwɪɾl̩/
/ˈʍɪɾl̩/
/ˈw̥ɪɾl̩/

词形变化

whittles 复数 whittled whittles 三单 whittles whittling whittling 现在分词 whittled 过去式 whittled 过去分词

别名

wittle

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A knife; especially, a clasp-knife, pocket knife, or sheath knife.

    刻刀

  2. 1.

    A covering for a bed; sheet.

    古体
  3. 2.

    A coarse greyish double blanket worn over the shoulders, like a cloak or shawl.

    古体
  4. 3.

    A kind of fine woollen shawl, originally and especially a white one.

    古体
  5. 4.

    A baby's flannel; a baby's woollen napkin; a flannel petticoat.

    古体 方言
v.
  1. 1.

    To cut or shape wood with a knife.

    削

    刻

    凿

    不及物 及物
  2. 2.

    To reduce or gradually eliminate something (such as a debt).

    及物
  3. 3.

    To make eager or excited; to excite with liquor; to inebriate.

    比喻 及物

词汇关系

动词

同义词 1

pare

上位词 1

cut

相关短语

whittle down 削减 Whittle likelihood Whittle likelihoods whittle down to size whittle the whalebone whittle away 削减, 减少, 降低（…的大小、重要性或价值）

词源

From Middle English whittel (“large knife”), an alteration of thwitel, itself from thwiten (“to whittle”), from Old English þwītan (“to strike down, whittle”), from Proto-Germanic *þwītaną, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *twey- (“to shake, hurl, toss”). Compare Old Norse þveita (“to hurl”), Ancient Greek σείω (seíō, “I shake”). Related to thwite and thwaite.

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