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crenelate的意思
crenelate
英 ['kren'let]
美 ['krnl,et]
- vt. 在…上开枪眼；使成雉堞状（等于crenellate）
英文词源
- crenelate (v.)
- early 14c., from French créneler, from crénelé (12c.); see crenel. Sometimes also crenellate; the double -l- seems to be from a presumed Latin *crenella as a diminutive of crena. Related: Crenelated (1823), also crenellated; crenellation (1849). Earlier formes of the past participle adjective included carneled.