英和和英

語源

From wire +‎ draw.

動詞

wiredraw (三人称単数 現在形 wiredraws, 現在分詞 wiredrawing, 過去形 wiredrew, 過去分詞 wiredrawn)

1. (transitive, now rare) To stretch (some physical thing) out, as though drawing wire; to elongate.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To stretch (words, a meaning etc.) to suit one's own purpose.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     , I.56:

     I am of opinion that the uncontrouled libertie, that all men have to wrest, dissipate, and wyredraw a word so religious and important, to so many severall idiomes, hath much more danger than profit following it.

   • 1842, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Lady Anne Granard, volume 1, pages 256-257:

     The vision was, however, so wiredrawn, it was so evident that the nobleman had not got his own consent to the vague something floating in his "mind's eye," that he left her in the dark as to his wishes and intentions beyond the belief that he was determined to seek, in the matrimonial state, that happiness which had hitherto eluded his pursuit,...