preen
preen /pɹiːn/ nghĩa là rỉa
Các nghĩa
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rỉa
To groom; to trim or dress the feathers with the beak.
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tự ngắm nghía, làm dáng
To spend time making oneself attractive and admiring one's appearance, e.g. in front of a mirror.
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khoe khoang, vênh váo
To show off, posture, or smarm.
His preening self-satisfaction, chest thrown forward as he settles into a chair in his mansion...
He preened under her compliments.
“Six look like dyin', and five dead,” preened the killer.
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tâng bốc, nịnh hót
To flatter.
New York nurtured and preened the most sophisticated audiences in the nation.
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chải chuốt, làm gọn gàng
To comb; to make orderly.
My two roommates are engineers who preen the diesels.
Preen the deer hair rearward around the hook shank, and take 3 tight thread wraps to secure it.
Now Prossiden's finger was brandished, and preened the air in front of Onascam's face with florid implications.
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tỉa cành, xén tỉa
To trim up, as trees.
Adjusting his spectacles on the bridge of his nose, he gently preened the bush with his pruners.
I ignored him and looked around, wondering who preened the conical fir trees on each ledge of the building.
+ 1 nghĩa khác
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làm đẹp, chải chuốt
To improve the appearance of; groom; prettify.
He brushed and preened the marquis, front and back. “Lucky we are, Your Grace, no gashes that I see. But the beard is in a woeful state —”
He'd built a lodge and preened the country, and imported or otherwise attracted the game, and then found that no one came.
A piece of human debris, usually plucked up and disposed of by the group of volunteers who pruned and preened the woods on a weekly basis.
Dạng khác
- preens present, singular, third-person
- preening participle, present
- preened participle, past
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