单词 | out-burn |
释义 | out-ˈburn, v. [out- 14, 18, 17. (In ME. as two words.)] 1. intr. To burn out or away, to be consumed.
1597Shakes. Pass. Pilgr. vii, She burn'd out love, as soon as straw out-burneth. 2. trans. To exceed in burning, burn longer than.
1742Young Nt. Th. ix. 165 Amazing Period! when each Mountain-Height Out-burns Vesuvius. 1832Tennyson Dream Fair Women 146 Lamps which outburn'd Canopus. So ˈout-burning vbl. n., burning out, extinction; out-burnt ppl. a., burnt out, exhausted.
1382Wyclif Isa. lxiv. 2 As out brennyng [Vulg. exustio] of fyr, they shulden vanshe awei. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. iii. iii, In dull smoke and ashes of out-burnt Sensualities. |

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