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grooming

/groom, groom/US // grum, grʊm //UK // (ɡruːm, ɡrʊm) //

梳理,梳妆打扮,梳洗,护理

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a bridegroom.
    • : a man or boy in charge of horses or the stable.
    • : any of several officers of the English royal household.
    • : Archaic. a manservant.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to tend carefully as to person and dress; make neat or tidy.
    • : to clean, brush, and otherwise tend.
    • : to prepare for a position, election, etc.: The mayor is being groomed for the presidency.
    • : to tend by removing dirt, parasites, or specks of other matter from the fur, skin, feathers, etc.: often performed as a social act.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbmake ready, prepare physically

Examples

  • In other cases however family members abandon women after learning that they were sold to a groom in a different and state.

  • Why did it take 16 years for this grooming ring to be exposed?

  • But she came away from the experience empowered by her newly politicized perception of grooming habits.

  • As The Guardian noted, Cameron Diaz was telling adorable anecdotes about forcibly grooming a hairy friend just under a year ago.

  • Modern angst aside, those with those with specialized grooming simply seem to have a better chance of shining and profiting.

  • And there are other opportunities in grooming that are interesting.

  • She needed the grooming––this neglected, listless, slatternly old maid of a craft.

  • A hundred men might be seen occupying themselves in grooming their horses.

  • There isn't a team in the country gets more grooming than those colts, and not a man has been known to overdrive them.

  • She attended him during his flight, grooming his horse, and enduring great hardships through fatigue and want of food.

  • The camp looked very strange without the horses, and it was odder still to have no watering or grooming to do.