lushenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

lushen (third-person singular simple present lushens, present participle lushening, simple past and past participle lushened)

1. (ambitransitive, rare) To make or become lush or luscious
   • 2006, Robert Hill, When All Is Said and Done, page 56:

     Give me the alchemy that packaging promises, that brings out my eyes and raises my cheeks and softens my nose and lushens my lips.

   • 2011, Pete Dunne, Arctic Autumn: A Journey to Season's Edge, page 189:

     Seeing, beneath age-lushened eyebrows, the look of worry in his eyes.

   • 2012, Leni Zumas, The Listeners, page 72:

     Cam once explained to my brother that Stradivarius had sprinkled volcanic ash between the wood and the varnish on his violins, lushening their sound.

   • 2016, Amy Lane, Rampant:

     And then he slid away. She was going to say something, but she was warm and soft—so soft, I couldn't stop running my hands along her lushening curves.

アナグラム

• Hulens

語源

Probably imitative; compare lashen.

発音

• IPA: /ˈluːʃən/, /ˈluʃən/

動詞

lushen

1. To make a dash, rush, charge.
2. To strike, knock, beat.

Conjugation

参照

• “lū̆shen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.