at wits' end / ɛnd /

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at wits' end4 个定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad: the end of a street;the end of a rope.
  2. a point, line, or limitation that indicates the full extent, degree, etc., of something; limit; bounds: kindness without end;to walk from end to end of a city.
  3. a part or place at or adjacent to an extremity: at the end of the table;the west end of town.
v. 有主动词 verb
  1. to bring to an end or conclusion: We ended the discussion on a note of optimism.
  2. to put an end to; terminate: This was the battle that ended the war.
  3. to form the end of: This passage ends the novel.
v. 无主动词 verb
  1. to come to an end; terminate; cease: The road ends at Rome.
  2. to issue or result: Extravagance ends in want.
  3. to reach or arrive at a final condition, circumstance, or goal: to end up in the army;to end as a happy person.
adj. 形容词 adjective
  1. final or ultimate: the end result.

at wits' end 近义词

at wits' end

等同于 madding

at wits' end

等同于 frantic

at wits' end构成的短语

  • end game
  • end in itself
  • end justifies the means, the
  • end of one's rope, at the
  • end of the line
  • end run
  • ends of the earth, the
  • end to end
  • end up
  • all's well that ends well
  • at loose ends
  • at one's wit's end
  • be-all and end-all
  • beginning of the end
  • bitter end
  • burn the candle at both ends
  • can't see beyond the end of one's nose
  • come to an end
  • dead end
  • go off the deep end
  • hair stand on end
  • hold one's end up
  • in the end
  • light at the end of the tunnel
  • make ends meet
  • never hear the end of
  • odds and ends
  • on end
  • on the receiving end
  • play both ends against the middle
  • put an end to
  • rear end
  • short end (of the stick)
  • tail end
  • wrong end of the stick

更多at wits' end例句

  1. Both Super Bowl quarterbacks will end up having offseason surgeries.
  2. As part of the agreement, the nation’s highest-paid strength coach at $800,000 annually would receive 15 months’ salary and 15 months of benefits for him and his family, though the latter would end if he found new employment.
  3. Keller, 21, said he didn’t plan to return to Overwatch when he announced his retirement but, eventually, he ended up trying out for the British Hurricane.
  4. If done right, you can end up turning a bad experience into a good one.
  5. Washington Capitals center Evgeny Kuznetsov and goaltender Ilya Samsonov returned to practice Monday, ending their stints on the NHL’s covid-19 protocol list as the league continues to deal with coronavirus issues.
  6. Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
  7. In the end, the clarity that comes from moments of horror can help us recommit to deeper principles.
  8. In the end, I find it never fails to modernize even the most dramatic things.
  9. Kennedy: "Mankind must put an end to war — or war will put an end to mankind."
  10. This reporter knocked at the Wilkins home on Tuesday morning but received neither an answer nor the business end of a shotgun.
  11. I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.
  12. On to Gaba Tepe just in time to see the opening, the climax and the end of the dreaded Turkish counter attack.
  13. He wanted to tell her that if she called her father, it would mean the end of everything for them, but he withheld this.
  14. Under the internal pressure his whiskers stood on end and his face grew red.
  15. She stood, in her young purity, at one end of the chain of years, and Mrs. Chepstow—did she really stand at the other?