flail
- IPA[fleɪl]
英式
- a threshing tool consisting of a wooden staff with a short heavy stick swinging from it.；a device similar to a flail, used as a weapon or for flogging.
- wave or swing wildly；flounder; struggle uselessly
verb: flail, 3rd person present: flails, gerund or present participle: flailing, past tense: flailed, past participle: flailed
- 釋義
- 相關詞
名詞
- 1. a threshing tool consisting of a wooden staff with a short heavy stick swinging from it.
- ▪ a device similar to a flail, used as a weapon or for flogging.
- ▪ a machine having a similar action to a flail, used for threshing or slashing a flail hedge trimmer
動詞
- 1. wave or swing wildly his arms flailed as he sought to maintain his balance 同義詞
- ▪ flounder; struggle uselessly I was flailing about in the water 同義詞
- 2. beat or flog (someone) he escorted them, flailing their shoulders with his cane 同義詞
- ▪ British cut (vegetation) with a flail the modern practice of flailing hedges every year with mechanical cutters
- an acute chest injury in which two or more ribs become detached from the rest of the ribcage: patients with a flail chest often remain at risk for pneumonia
Oxford American Dictionary
- an acute chest injury in which two or more ribs become detached from the rest of the ribcage: patients with a flail chest often remain at risk for pneumonia
Oxford Dictionary
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- IPA[flāl]
美式
- a threshing tool consisting of a wooden staff with a short heavy stick swinging from it.
- wave or swing or cause to wave or swing wildly: his arms were flailing helplessly he flailed his arms and drove her away
Oxford American Dictionary
