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swash

C2 verb

swash /swɑʃ/ nghĩa là khoe khoang, vênh vang

Các nghĩa

  1. khoe khoang, vênh vang

    To swagger; to act with boldness or bluster (toward).

    ambitransitive

    He swashed out of the room, and presently we heard his angry voice berating his bearer.

    The men he'd swashed were coming at him, with determination if no great skill.

    "We'll be splendid pirates!" cried Mrs Grinling as she swashed and buckled around the room.

  2. vỗ bọt, bắn nước

    To dash or flow noisily; to splash.

    ambitransitive

    How the sea rolls swashing ‘gainst the side! Stand by for reefing, hearties!

    The rain was pelting and rattling upon the leathern top of the carriage, and the wheels swashed as they rolled through puddle and mud.

    They waved one sleeve, but only swashed wine all over the guests; they waved the other, but only scattered bones through the room.

  3. khuấy, quấy

    To swirl through liquid; to swish.

    ambitransitive

    The parts are swashed in the solution until they are clean and are then rinsed in cold running water.

    I followed one set to the laundrey, where for two hours the samples were swashed and soaked, and swashed again, with strong laundry soap.

    His gray and black hair on his head swashed in the dirty water around what used to be his face.

  4. lội mạnh

    To wade forcefully through liquid.

    intransitive

    We clambered over the giant ahuehuete like Lilliputians over the body of a Gulliver, and swashed through the slimy flood.

    The raccoon swashed and swished his way back out of the river's water to interrupt the mouse

    In his wake swashed the others, still covered from both banks.

  5. quét, vụt

    To swipe.

    ambitransitive

    '[…] ye ill-farren, useless bowdikite!' said she, as she swashed the dishclout about my lugs,

    It was a fire sword That I swashed about the world, O how I swashed The great fire sword that lit the sky

    Steady rhythms swash, swash, on my chest Yes, yes.

  6. rơi mạnh, đập mạnh

    To fall violently or noisily.

    intransitive

    The Archbyshop of Yorke[…]swasht him down, meaning to thrust himselfe in betwixt the Legate, and the Archbyshop of Canterbury.

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  1. vẽ vệt, tô màu

    To streak, to color in a swash.

    As the valleys darkened, the caps of the hills were swashed in variant hues.

    The glade where he stood was tropical in nature and should have been swashed in a hundred shades of green.

    Great silhouettes overhead swashed the blue satin sky with scimitar wings—Magnificent Frigatebirds!

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