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单词 go backward
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to go backward
c. to go backward: to retire for a necessary purpose (hence said of the action). Obsolete.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > [verb (intransitive)]
to do one's business1596
to pluck a rose1613
to pay a call1648
to go backward1748
go1804
to do (one's) duty1935
to wash one's hands1938
to spend a penny1945
perform1963
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xi. 80 My companion's bowels being disordered, he got up, in order to go backward.
1771 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. (ed. 4) 185 The Patient..went backward immediately.
1771 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. (ed. 4) 210 No Discharge backward.
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to go backward
6. In the direction of retreat. (Commonly back.) †to go backward: to recede, retreat; to relapse, backslide (obsolete).
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society > faith > aspects of faith > apostasy > be or become apostate [verb (intransitive)]
renayc1300
to go backward1382
to fall awayc1384
to stand behindc1475
to turn (one's) tippet1546
relapse1563
backslide1581
apostate1596
apostatize1611
renegade1611
apostasize1696
renegado1731
renege1744
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > [adverb] > in direction of retreat
backward1382
1382 J. Wyclif Psalms xl. 14 Be thei turned al bacward.
c1400 Rom. Rose 5024 The joy that is eterne, Fro which go bakward Youthe her made.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. i. A They haue prouoked the holy one of Israel vnto anger, and are gone bacward.
1611 Bible (King James) Isa. i. 4 Let them be driuen backward, and put to shame. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 223 The flames Drivn backward slope their pointing spires. View more context for this quotation
1821 Ld. Byron Sardanapalus iii. i. 99 They are beaten backward from the palace.
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to go backward
to go backward
intransitive. To change for the worse, deteriorate; to decline in prosperity. Cf. to go backwards at Phrasal verbs 1.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > be in adversity [verb (intransitive)] > fall from prosperous or thriving condition
afalleOE
wanec1000
fallOE
ebba1420
to go backward?a1425
to go down?1440
decay1483
sink?a1513
delapsea1530
reel1529
decline1530
to go backwards1562
rue1576
droop1577
ruina1600
set1607
lapse1641
to lose ground1647
to go to pigs and whistles1794
to come (also go) down in the world1819
to peg out1852
to lose hold, one's balance1877
to go under1879
toboggan1887
slip1930
to turn down1936
a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) l. 1810 (MED) Þe shrewes..þat among vs her beoþ Þat euere goþ a-bakward, and þe leng þe worse y-þeoþ.]
?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 119 Þei goon bacward and wolen not amenden hem.
1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 147 To Ga bakwarde, retrogradi.
1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. gvii As longe as it doth prosper, The realme goeth backwarde never, In stabill felicite perseverynge.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 571/1 I go backwarde, I fall in dette or behynde hande.
1565 T. Stapleton tr. Bede Hist. Church Eng. iv. xxvi. f. 145v The hope and prowesse of the dominion of the English began much to decaye and go backeward.
1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 132 They..looke vpon men, and matters with an evill eie, and are best pleased when thinges goe backward.
1682 A. Behn City-heiress ii. ii. 17 Things go backward with me.
1775 J. Reynolds Disc. Royal Acad. 32 Those [Artists]..have..not only ceased to advance, and improve in their performance but have gone backward.
1816 Parl. Deb. 1st. Ser. 32 994/1 Is the process of cultivation and population in Canada to stop or to go backward?
1876 Fortn. Rev. 1 July 94 Your argument..is simply that the human kind have utterly gone backward since the statue was carved.
1932 Rotarian July 7/1 When the improvements are compared with those in the world around us, the railroad seems to have gone backward.
1998 K. K. Prah Beyond Color Line 1 By and large, Africa over the period has gone backward.
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