vicious
- IPA[ˈviSHəs]
美式
- deliberately cruel or violent；(of an animal) wild and dangerous to people
- 釋義
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形容詞
- 1. deliberately cruel or violent a vicious assault 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ (of an animal) wild and dangerous to people the dog was vicious and likely to bite
- ▪ serious or dangerous a vicious flu bug
- 2. literary immoral every soul on earth, virtuous or vicious, shall perish
- 3. archaic (of language or a line of reasoning) imperfect; defective.
- a sequence of reciprocal cause and effect in which two or more elements intensify and aggravate ... debtors were caught in a vicious circle: they could not be freed until they had paid their debt, and were not able to pay their debt as long as they were in prison
Oxford Dictionary
- a sequence of reciprocal cause and effect in which two or more elements intensify and aggravate ... debtors were caught in a vicious circle: they could not be freed until they had paid their debt, and were not able to pay their debt as long as they were in prison
Oxford American Dictionary
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