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uttermost

/uht-er-mohst or, especially British, -muhst/US // ˈʌt ərˌmoʊst or, especially British, -məst //UK // (ˈʌtəˌməʊst) //

极限,极限的,极度,极端

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : most remote or outermost; farthest: the uttermost stars.
    • : of the greatest or highest degree, quantity, etc.; greatest: The country's art has reached uttermost creativity.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : utmost.

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Examples

  • The sum of his borrowing mounted and mounted, until, before the arrival of spring, his credit had been strained to the uttermost.

  • In covenant, the heathen were given to him for an inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession.

  • The Armenian massacres were now really beginning, and the Turks were inflexibly resolved to persist in them to the uttermost.

  • Brussels was the half-way halt to the uttermost heights of his ambition.

  • O Warden of the Uttermost House, wherefore should we forbear?