亚洲网紅露点

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gravel

[ grav-uhl ]

noun

  1. small stones and pebbles, or a mixture of these with sand.
  2. Pathology.
    1. multiple small calculi formed in the kidneys.
    2. the disease characterized by such concretions.


verb (used with object)

graveled, graveling or (especially British) gravelled, gravelling.
  1. to cover with gravel.
  2. to bring to a standstill from perplexity; puzzle.
  3. Informal. to be a cause of irritation to.
  4. Obsolete. to run (a ship) aground, as on a beach.

adjective

  1. harsh and grating:

    a gravel voice.

gravel

/ 藞伞谤忙惫蓹濒 /

noun

  1. an unconsolidated mixture of rock fragments that is coarser than sand
  2. geology a mixture of rock fragments with diameters in the range 4鈥76 mm
  3. pathol small rough calculi in the kidneys or bladder
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to cover with gravel
  2. to confound or confuse
  3. informal.
    to annoy or disturb
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藞驳谤补惫别濒颈蝉丑, adjective
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 驳谤补惫顎侥濒路颈蝉丑 adjective
  • 耻苍路驳谤补惫顎侥濒别诲 adjective
  • 耻苍路驳谤补惫顎侥濒濒别诲 adjective
  • 飞别濒濒顎-驳谤补惫顎侥濒别诲 adjective
  • 飞别濒濒顎-驳谤补惫顎侥濒濒别诲 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of gravel1

1250鈥1300; Middle English < Old French gravele, diminutive of grave sandy shore, perhaps < Celtic; grave 4, growan
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of gravel1

C13: from Old French gravele, diminutive of grave gravel, perhaps of Celtic origin
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It鈥檚 grainy on the tongue, like crushed gravel.

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Strolling in bright sunshine across the immaculately raked gravel of Paris's Tuileries gardens, Barbara and Rick Wilson from Dallas, Oregon, were not exactly in disguise.

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A viewer, and not just the gravel beneath the steel plate, is in the dark.

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The car bounced over the kerb at the second apex of the chicane, which flicked the car into an oversteer and Norris slid into the gravel.

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Other heavy construction equipment including excavators and sluice and slurry pumps were brought in, as well as technical experts and "several hundred tons of gravel and earth", the US Army said.

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