单词 | go under |
释义 | > as lemmasto go under to go under 1. intransitive. To go underwater, to submerge. Also: (of a boat, etc.) to sink; (of a person or animal) to drown. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > sink > in liquid sinkOE drench1297 drenklec1330 to go downa1475 replunge1611 submerge1652 swamp1795 to go under1820 1820 Methodist Mag. Nov. 406 He was drowned in the Susquehannah river... He put his head under for the purpose of wetting it..and..staggered backwards into a deep hole, and soon went under. 1854 U.S. Mag. 15 Nov. 203/2 Mr. Allen..had too much reason to fear the loss of his wife and several other relatives..whom he saw placed on the raft of spars before the ship went under. 1919 Times 22 Mar. 8/1 The submarine commander..could do a ‘crash dive’, that is, go under with full weight on. 1958 I. Fleming Dr. No x. 117 The head went under again and there was nothing but muddy froth and a slowly widening red stain that began to seep away downstream. 1991 R. R. McCammon Boy's Life ii. vi. 159 Your dad saw the guy go under, and now the guy's down there in his car gettin' all mossy and eat up by turtles? 2004 Huffington Post (Nexis) 26 Mar. A recently unearthed letter..may offer a new glimpse into those harrowing hours before the ship went under. 2. intransitive. Chiefly U.S. slang. To die. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] forsweltc888 sweltc888 adeadeOE deadc950 wendeOE i-wite971 starveOE witea1000 forfereOE forthfareOE forworthc1000 to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE queleOE fallOE to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE to shed (one's own) blood?a1100 diec1135 endc1175 farec1175 to give up the ghostc1175 letc1200 aswelta1250 leavea1250 to-sweltc1275 to-worthc1275 to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290 finea1300 spilla1300 part?1316 to leese one's life-daysa1325 to nim the way of deathc1325 to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330 flit1340 trance1340 determinec1374 disperisha1382 to go the way of all the eartha1382 to be gathered to one's fathers1382 miscarryc1387 shut1390 goa1393 to die upa1400 expirea1400 fleea1400 to pass awaya1400 to seek out of lifea1400–50 to sye hethena1400 tinea1400 trespass14.. espirec1430 to end one's days?a1439 decease1439 to go away?a1450 ungoc1450 unlivec1450 to change one's lifea1470 vade1495 depart1501 to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513 to decease this world1515 to go over?1520 jet1530 vade1530 to go westa1532 to pick over the perch1532 galpa1535 to die the death1535 to depart to God1548 to go home1561 mort1568 inlaikc1575 shuffle1576 finish1578 to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587 relent1587 unbreathe1589 transpass1592 to lose one's breath1596 to make a die (of it)1611 to go offa1616 fail1623 to go out1635 to peak over the percha1641 exita1652 drop1654 to knock offa1657 to kick upa1658 to pay nature her due1657 ghost1666 to march off1693 to die off1697 pike1697 to drop off1699 tip (over) the perch1699 to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703 sink1718 vent1718 to launch into eternity1719 to join the majority1721 demise1727 to pack off1735 to slip one's cable1751 turf1763 to move off1764 to pop off the hooks1764 to hop off1797 to pass on1805 to go to glory1814 sough1816 to hand in one's accounts1817 to slip one's breatha1819 croak1819 to slip one's wind1819 stiffen1820 weed1824 buy1825 to drop short1826 to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839 to get one's (also the) call1839 to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840 to unreeve one's lifeline1840 to step out1844 to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845 to hand in one's checks1845 to go off the handle1848 to go under1848 succumb1849 to turn one's toes up1851 to peg out1852 walk1858 snuff1864 to go or be up the flume1865 to pass outc1867 to cash in one's chips1870 to go (also pass over) to the majority1883 to cash in1884 to cop it1884 snuff1885 to belly up1886 perch1886 to kick the bucket1889 off1890 to knock over1892 to pass over1897 to stop one1901 to pass in1904 to hand in one's marble1911 the silver cord is loosed1911 pip1913 to cross over1915 conk1917 to check out1921 to kick off1921 to pack up1925 to step off1926 to take the ferry1928 peg1931 to meet one's Maker1933 to kiss off1935 to crease it1959 zonk1968 cark1977 to cark it1979 to take a dirt nap1981 1848 G. F. Ruxton Life in Far West i. i, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 717/1 Five of our boys got rubbed out that time... How 'sever, seven of us went under. 1885 B. Harte Maruja vii. 154 What with old Doc West going under so suddent. 1915 I. Ostrander Primal Law vii. 105 She's gone under... She is dead. 1993 R. S. Wheeler Wind River 62 ‘I knew them all,’ said Skye. ‘Most've gone under.’ 3. intransitive. a. To succumb or be overwhelmed in the struggle for survival; to drop out of sight or knowledge.In later use influenced by sense 3b. ΘΚΠ 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 1879 J. Payn Finding his Level in High Spirits I. 234 Poor John Weybridge, Esq., became as friendless as penniless, and eventually ‘went under’, and was heard of no more. 1890 Sat. Rev. 15 Mar. 330/2 Intended for publication a considerable time ago..they ‘went under’..and only recently turned up again. 1912 B. T. Washington & R. E. Park Man Farthest Down iv. 59 There is much poverty..—not of those who have been defeated and gone under, but of those who have never got up. 1934 J. M. C. Toynbee Hadrianic School p. xiii Greek art had ‘gone under’ and had been replaced by an almost wholly new art created by Imperial Rome. 2007 B. R. Barber Consumed vi. 251 Marxism has long since gone under as a socioeconomic system. b. Of a business, venture, etc.: to go bankrupt; to be ruined financially. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > [verb (intransitive)] > become bankrupt to play (the) bankrupt1548 bankrupt1552 to take Ludgate1585 break1600 to go down the weather1611 to break the bank1623 to go to the right shop1655 to swallow a spider1670 to march off1683 to go off1688 to break up shop1712 bust1834 burst1848 to go up King Street1864 to go bust1875 to go under1882 to belly up1886 1882 Proc. Trial U.S. vs. J. W. Dorsey et al. for Conspiracy (Supreme Court D.C.) III. 2949 To use a sort of a nautical commercial phrase, this history says that the concern ‘went under’. 1906 in K. Laybourn Brit. Trade Unionism (1991) 101 During the past few years three tool firms have gone under. 1982 P. Redmond Brookside (Mersey TV shooting script) (O.E.D. Archive) Episode 4. 54 The firm'll go under... You'll be on the dole. 1990 J. Eberts & T. Ilott My Indecision is Final ii. 21 Any one film going under would not mean catastrophe. Thus the portfolio approach would make it more attractive to the investor. 2013 Oldie Apr. 73/1 Your shop is about to go under and you want to sell off everything at half price. 4. intransitive. In sporting contexts: to lose, be beaten (by a specified margin). ΚΠ 1896 Scotsman 7 Sept. 5/1 Trott and Gregory effected their memorable partnership of 231 runs..and after a desperate fight on the third day went under by six wickets. 1921 Times of India 16 Nov. 12/5 Of the Metropolitan second Division Clubs Clapton Orient went under for the first time at home. 1947 Sporting Mirror 7 Nov. 10/3 Huddersfield were extremely unlucky to go under by an own-goal score to Charlton. 2014 Independent (Nexis) 29 June 22 In last month's Chester Cup Angel Gabrial went under by half a length to Suegioo. 5. intransitive. To be rendered unconscious, esp. by means of an anaesthetic; (also) to succumb to sleep. ΚΠ 1909 C. H. Johnston in Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. 4 18 The advanced stages of the incomplete anesthesia, of ‘going under’, and of ‘coming out’, from total unconsciousness, disclose in all likelihood..mental phenomena. 1927 V. Woolf To Lighthouse iii. i. 231 Being tired..the candles wavering in her eyes, she had lost herself and gone under. 1955 R. Lindner Fifty-minute Hour 197 It seems as if you're just about to go under, to fall asleep, and then for some reason either you pull yourself back or something automatically checks you and you become wide awake. 1983 R. Sutcliff Blue Remembered Hills (1984) vi. 43 His voice saying quietly, ‘Breathe deeply. Deeply. That's right, that's splendid..’ is a better way of going under than a jab in the arm. 2014 Times (Nexis) 31 Mar. He became so frightened of going under that, ‘The last couple of times, they [sc. the doctors] gave him a drug so he'd forget.’ to go under —— to go under —— intransitive. To submit to, undergo; (in later use) spec. to undergo (medical treatment, esp. surgery). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > operation upon something > have effect on [verb (transitive)] > be subjected to or undergo an action > specifically of a person havea1225 to go under ——a1400 lie1546 hold1592 undergo1600 stand1607 the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > absence of resistance > accept without resistance [verb (transitive)] > give in or submit to action, treatment, or events undergoc1175 give place1382 receivec1384 obeyc1390 to go under ——a1400 servec1400 underliec1400 submitc1425 subscribe1560 resign1593 stoop1611 to let loose1667 to qualify on1753 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 9094 Al can on wonder, þe scrift þat salamon yod vnder. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 204 Which with thi fre wil hast goon vndir for us the lawis of deeth [L. ultro qui mortis pro nobis jura subisti]. 1579 J. Knewstub Confut. Heresies sig. R.7 He would be abased so farre for vs, as..to leaue the highest estate in heauen, and to goe vnder the basest condition here vpon earth. a1643 T. Crisp Christ Alone Exalted (1646) III. ix. 286 Christ the surety of his people, going under the punishment, and fulfilling the punishment. 1846 H. Colman Let. 3 Feb. in European Life & Manners (1850) II. cxx. 54 Her sister is about to go under medical treatment. 1860 Lancet 4 Aug. 109/1 He..went under treatment at the Westminster Dispensary for four months. 1920 Typogr. Jrnl. 57 485/1 S. G. Winn..has asked for two months' vacation to go under medical treatment for stomach and nervous trouble. 1999 T. Smith Miracle Birth Stories Very Premature Babies vii. 85 We came very close to having Andrea go under surgery. < as lemmas |
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