| 单词 | cut away |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cut away to cut away 1. transitive. To cut so as to take or clear away, to remove by cutting. ΘΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away > remove or displace by scratching, scraping, stripping, or cutting bestrip1065 file?c1225 to cut awayc1320 raze1419 screeve?1440 rakec1475 to scrape out, forth1530 scrata1560 scrabble1657 scamble1707 peel1787 c1320 Seuyn. Sag. (W.) 604 And his bowes awai i-kett. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 111 Cuttyyn' a-way, abscindo, amputo. ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 4229 Some bad þe bolnyng cutt away. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 399/2 Used to draw up the Cataract off the sight of the eye while it is cuting away. 1886 W. Besant Children of Gibeon 107 I will cut away the dead leaves. Π c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Cor. xi. 12 I kitte awey the occasioun of hem. c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi i. xx He þat wolde kutte awey al maner of veyne besines. 1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 10 All errour and abuse being cuttit away. 1707 J. Freind Acct. Earl of Peterborow's Conduct in Spain 251 Yesterday they cut away the Water of a Mill in this Town. 3. intransitive. To go on cutting continuously or without cessation: see away adv. 6. cut away a. transitive. To separate or remove by cutting; to sever from the main body; to lop off. With const. from or equivalent preposition, or adverb complement, as adrift; also frequently cut away, cut off, cut out. †to cut a purse: to steal it by cutting it from the girdle to which it was suspended. ΘΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > cutting or stealing purses > cut or steal purses [verb (intransitive)] to cut a pursea1300 nip1567 purse1616 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separate [verb (transitive)] > separate by force or violence > by cutting cuta1300 uncut1611 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > detach [verb (transitive)] > cut off becarveOE carvec1000 hewc1000 shredc1275 cuta1300 chapc1325 cleavec1330 off-shearc1330 withscore1340 to cut offc1380 colea1400 slivea1400 to score awayc1400 abscisea1500 discidea1513 sharea1529 off-trenchc1530 off-hewc1540 pare1549 detrench1553 slice?1560 detrunk1566 sneck1578 resect1579 shred1580 curtail1594 off-chop1594 lop?1602 disbranch1608 abscind1610 snip1611 circumcise1613 desecate1623 discerpa1628 amputate1638 absciss1639 prescind1640 notch1820 a1300 E.E. Psalter cxviii. 39 Cute mine up-braidinge [ Wyclif 1382 Kut of my repref, 1388 Kitte awey my schen~schip]. 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 3715 Þe lymes þat er cutted fra þe body. 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 347 Till he the mannes purs have kut. c1450 Mirour Saluacioun 2603 All the braunches of the tree shuld be kitted. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1871) III. 473 Thauȝhe Alexander kytte [L. absciderit] myne hede he may not sle my sawle. 1585 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) II. 297 There, was a schole howse sett upp to learne younge boyes to cutt purses. 1632 J. Story tr. Short Surv. Sweden 84 Cut out of his mothers wombe. 1694 Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) ii. 173 So cut the Fat from it by pieces. 1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 175 We were obliged..to cut the Raft adrift. 1842 T. P. Thompson Exercises VI. 413 Halfpenny-worths of bread cut off the loaf. < as lemmas |
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