| 单词 |
over-height |
| 释义 |
ˈover-ˈheight, n. rare. [over- 29.] Excessive height. Also † ˈover-ˈheight v. Obs. [over- 22 b], trans. to surpass in height, fig. to excel; ˌover-ˈheighten v. [over- 22, 27], † (a) = prec. (obs.); (b) to heighten too much.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vii. xi. (1623) 263 The greatnesse of his Port, that much in her eyes ouer-heighted her husbands. c1611Chapman Iliad ii. 411 So Agamemnon Jove that day made overheighten clear That heaven-bright army. 1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 63 Subterraneous Damps do sometimes..grow to that over-height of fermentation, that they fire of themselves. Mod. Such expressions do not merely heighten the effect, they over-heighten it. |

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