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ambages n. 迂回的作法;拐弯抹角 迂回的作法;拐弯抹角 ambages n 1: ( archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of actionAmbages \ Am* ba" ges\, n. pl. [ L. ( usually in pl.); pref. ambi-, amb- agere to drive: cf. F. ambage.] A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech. [ 1913 Webster] After many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is. -- Burton. [ 1913 Webster] 45 Moby Thesaurus words for " ambages": anfractuosity, bypass, circuit, circuitousness, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, circumvolution, convolution, crinkle, crinkling, detour, deviation, deviousness, digression, excursion, flexuosity, flexuousness, indirection, intorsion, involution, meander, meandering, obliqueness, periphrase, periphrasis, rivulation, roundabout, roundabout way, roundaboutness, sinuation, sinuosity, sinuousness, slinkiness, snakiness, torsion, tortility, tortuosity, tortuousness, turning, twisting, undulation, wave, waving, winding
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