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单词 amar
释义

amarv.

Forms:

α. early Old English amierran, Old English amerran, Old English amirran, Old English amyrd (past participle, rare), Old English amyrran, late Old English amærran, early Middle English amærre (south-west midlands), Middle English amarre, Middle English amered (past participle), Middle English amerre.

β. early Middle English amorre (south-western), late Middle English amvre (Essex).

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Old Saxon amerrian to hinder, Middle High German ermerren to hinder < the Germanic base of or- prefix (compare a- prefix1) + the Germanic base of mar v.Compare the discussion of variant forms at mar v. Occasionally difficult to distinguish from forms of Old English amǣran , amǣrian to lay waste, to destroy, to ruin. The β. forms show rounding of the stem vowel to u.
Obsolete.
1. transitive. To hamper or hinder (a person or action).
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hinder [verb (transitive)]
letc888
shrenchc897
forstanda1000
amarOE
disturbc1290
impeachc1380
stopc1380
withstandc1385
hinder1413
accloy1422
hindc1426
to hold abackc1440
appeachc1460
impeditec1535
inhibit1535
obstacle1538
damp1548
trip1548
embarrass1578
dam1582
to clip the wings ofa1593
unhelp1598
uppen1600
straiten1607
rub1608
impediment1610
impedea1616
to put out1616
to put off1631
scote1642
obstruct1645
incommodiate1650
offend1651
sufflaminate1656
hindrance1664
disassist1671
clog1679
muzzle1706
squeeze1804
to take the wind out of the sails of1822
throttle1825
block1844
overslaugh1853
snag1863
gum1901
slow-walk1965
OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iv. xl. 324 Þa færinga ongan se ilca cniht clypian..& mid hludum stefnum toslat & amyrde þara broðra sangas & gebedu.
lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Bodl.) (2009) I. xxxii. 307 Þes andwearda wela amerð [eOE Otho myrð] and læt þa men þe beoð atihte to þam soðum gesælþum.
lOE King Ælfred tr. St. Augustine Soliloquies (Vitell.) (1922) i. 33 Me þonne ðincg[ð] þæt me nan þing ne mage þæs amærran þæt ic hyt ne firðrige and fremme.
2. transitive. To damage or destroy (a physical object). In early use also: to squander (property).
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > damage or injure [verb (transitive)]
mareOE
shendOE
hinderc1000
amarOE
awemc1275
noyc1300
touchc1300
bleche1340
blemisha1375
spill1377
misdoa1387
grieve1390
damagea1400
despoil?a1400
matea1400
snapea1400
mankc1400
overthrowa1425
tamec1430
undermine1430
blunder1440
depaira1460
adommage?1473
endamage1477
prejudicec1487
fulyie1488
martyra1500
dyscrase?1504
corrupt1526
mangle1534
danger1538
destroy1542
spoil1563
ruinate1564
ruin1567
wrake1570
injury1579
bane1587
massacre1589
ravish1594
wrong1595
rifle1604
tainta1616
mutilea1618
to do violence toa1625
flaw1665
stun1676
quail1682
maul1694
moil1698
damnify1712
margullie1721
maul1782
buga1790
mux1806
queer1818
batter1840
puckeroo1840
rim-rack1841
pretty1868
garbage1899
savage1899
to do in1905
strafe1915
mash1924
blow1943
nuke1967
mung1969
OE West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xv. 14 Ða he hig hæfde ealle amyrrede [c1200 Hatton amerde; L. consummasset] þa wearð mycel hunger on þam rice & he wearð wædla.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1110 Eorðwestmas wurdon swiðe amyrde & treowwestmas..forneah eall forwurdon.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 9714 Ne mihte heo..mid nare strengðe þene wal amærre.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 130 Þe uour cornardyes þet amerreþ [c1450 Bk. Vices & Virtues shenden] þo contraye.
c1450 (a1375) Octavian (Calig.) (1979) l. 1307 He ran wyth a drawe swerde..And all hys goddys þer he amerrede.
3. transitive. To destroy or undermine (a person's virtue, faith, etc.); to unsettle or greatly agitate (a person or a person's mind).
ΚΠ
OE Ælfric Homily: De Duodecim Abusivis (Corpus Cambr. 178) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 299 Twelf unþeawas syndon on þyssere worulde..& hi alecgað rihtwisnysse & þone geleafan amyrrað [a1225 Lamb. 487 amerrað].
?a1300 in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) ii. 767 (MED) Þe seuene heued sunne..Þe soule wolleþ amerre.
c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) Prol. l. 16 Thus tales me troblid..And amarride my mynde.
a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Harl. 7333) (1879) 253 Whenne the knyȝt harde thes wordes, he was not a litle mevid, & amarryd in mynde.
4. transitive. To ruin or destroy (a person or people).
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > destroy or ruin a person
spillc950
amarOE
smitelOE
aspillc1175
mischievec1325
to bid (something) misadventurec1330
mara1375
fordoc1380
undo1390
wrack1564
to make roast meat of (also for)1565
wrake1567
wreck1590
speed1594
feeze1609
to do a person's business1667
cook1708
to settle a person's hash1795
diddle1806
to fix1836
raddle1951
OE Laws of Cnut (Nero) ii. lvi. 348 Gif open morð weorðe, þæt man sy amyrred.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1912 He ferde ouer þe Humbre and hermes he worhte, he herȝede, he brande, folc he amærde.
c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 4676 (MED) Nou þou hast, sir, alle y-herd, Hou ich am bitreyd & amerd.
c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 102 Ryȝt so hys al mankende a-merred Þorȝ þe route of fenym.
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 2196 (MED) Dame ffortune, Beryn to a-mvre [rhyme aventure], Turnyth hir whele a-bout.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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