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colic

/kol-ik/US // ˈkɒl ɪk //UK // (ˈkɒlɪk) //

绞痛,疝气,肠绞痛,腹痛

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : paroxysmal pain in the abdomen or bowels.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to or affecting the colon or the bowels.

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Examples

  • I went back to work sooner than I had with my son and we muddled through the colic, the eczema, two sets of diapers.

  • And in my first memory, I am a toddler kneading that taut skin, easing my colic into sleep.

  • But college is not like some sort of all-purpose herbal supplement that cures bunions and also colic; it teaches specific skills.

  • One morning, after taking my coffee, I was seized with violent sickness, attended with colic.

  • I don't know what was the matter with it, but I think it had the colic, for it lay as quiet as a mouse; and then it died.

  • He had come within at least an appreciable distance of selling his soul for a colic cure.

  • He died of colic in the year 1430, at the age of forty-seven.

  • But I do know that I was fortunate in not being devoured during the several hours I was knotted up on the ground with the colic.