单词 | obsolesce |
释义 | obsolesce, v. rare.|ɒbsəʊˈlɛs| [ad. L. obsolēscĕre to grow old, decay, fall into disuse, inchoative form of *obsolēre, f. ob- (ob- 1 b) + solēre to be accustomed, to use.] intr. To be obsolescent; to grow obsolete; to fall into disuse.
1873F. Hall Mod. Eng. vii. 266 Intermediate between the English which I have been treating of, and English of recent emergence, stands that which is obsolescing. 1934G. B. Shaw On Rocks 160 The lists of crimes and penalties will obsolesce like the doctors' lists of diseases and medicines. 1950N.Y. Times 12 Nov. 96/2 (Advt.), New New a thousand times New (we'd rather die than obsolesce). 1975Amer. Speech 1972 XLVII. 261 Exolinguistics has never become a standard term in either linguistics or anthropology, but it has persisted in both periodicals and books for twenty years, and it refuses to obsolesce. |

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