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单词 as he were wood
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as (if) he (etc.) were wood
c. In phrases of comparison, often expressing fury or violence (cf. A. 3): e.g. as (if) he (etc.) were wood; as or like wood (cf. mad adj. Phrases 1).
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [phrase] > with fierce or furious violence
as or like woodc1220
for woodc1275
wood1297
for mada1375
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c1220 Bestiary 338 We brennen in mod, And wurðen so we weren wod.
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 508 Starinde als he were wod.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 140 Hi yerneþ hi lheapeþ ase wode.
c1420 Chron. Vilod. 3859 He cryedde & rorede as þaw he were wode.
a1450 Knt. de la Tour xxviii They..beganne to crye lyke wode folke.
a1510 G. Douglas King Hart i. 224 Thai preik, thai prance, as princis that war woude.
?a1525 (?a1475) Play Sacrament l. 483 in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 73 Yt bledyth as yt were woode, iwys.
1568 T. Howell Newe Sonets (1879) 121 From me he fled as woode.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. iii. 27 Like a would-woman.
1647 H. More Philos. Poems i. ii. xciii Thou..rav'st as thou wert wood.
1721 A. Ramsay To Ld. Dalhousie 13 Some like to..gar the Courser rin like wood.
extracted from woodadj.n.2adv.
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