besmallとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• 韻: -ɔːl

動詞

besmall (三人称単数 現在形 besmalls, 現在分詞 besmalling, 過去形および過去分詞形 besmalled)

1. (transitive, rare, nonstandard) To make small; (figurative) to make as though small.
   • 1974, Pacific islands monthly:

     And loneliness balked my pride, my innate pride, my integral native being, besmalling me all the more, until I couldn't remember myself the way I did last year and the years before.

   • 1984, Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, Bikmaus:

     "Weariness too faltered my conscience . . . besmalling me."

   • 2000, Ed. Manmohan K. Bhatnagar, Twentieth Century Literature in English:

     The besmalled position shocks Tusker to fell sick for a long time and finally die when he is asked to vacate the Lodge.

派生語

• besmalled

アナグラム

• emballs, lambels