bristles 的 3 个定义
- one of the short, stiff, coarse hairs of certain animals, especially hogs, used extensively in making brushes.
- anything resembling these hairs.
bris·tled, bris·tling.
- to stand or rise stiffly, like bristles.
- to erect the bristles, as an irritated animal: The hog bristled up.
- to become rigid with anger or irritation: The man bristled when I asked him to move.
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bris·tled, bris·tling.
- to erect like bristles: The rooster bristled his crest.
- to furnish with a bristle or bristles.
- to make bristly.
bristles 近义词
short, prickly hair
become upset, excited
更多bristles例句
- To protect delicate hardwood, look for a model that lets you turn off the brush or has specially designed soft bristles.
- Those tiny wire bristles can break off, stick onto the grill, and wind up in your food, which winds up in your body, which winds up in the hospital.
- Scrub the outside of the shoes thoroughly, taking care to get the bristles into fabric sections to clear dirt out of the mesh.
- Her bristles about the press and her image don’t always lack merit.
- This Bissell carpet cleaner has a powerbrush that has ten rows of bristles designed to loosen dirt and odors in combination with a cleaning solution, before sucking them into a waste tank.
- Americans tend to bristle even at self-censorship; we are reluctant to declare that we simply are not going to look at something.
- And they bristle too at the notion that they had some kind of personal enmity toward the president.
- She continued to bristle at being associated with the Mafia because of her father.
- Her woefully neglected novels still bristle with wit and insight.
- While a normal person would bristle at such obvious red flags, our girls ran like bulls towards love.
- Even the roofs of the houses bristle with pigeon-lofts and artful-looking structures for the capture of wandering birds.
- To whom the prophetess, seeing his neck now bristle with horrid snakes, flings a soporific cake of honey and medicated grain.
- De time wuz w'en folks had a mighty slim chance fer ter git bristle, en dey aint no tellin' w'en dat time gwine come ag'in.
- His mask is brown, cut off above the upper lip, over which a pair of short moustachios bristle.
- In crescent formation the dense black cloud swept on—in dead silence—a phalanx of shields, a perfect bristle of assegais.