单词 | heart-strike |
释义 | heart-strikev. transitive. To affect keenly or deeply with emotion (typically mental anguish or dismay). Usually in passive. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > intense emotion > affect intensely [verb (transitive)] thirlc1315 piercec1390 thrilla1400 strikec1475 throb1600 penetratea1616 heart-strikea1637 transfix1649 sink1771 shoot1842 a1637 B. Jonson tr. Horace Art of Poetrie 136 in Wks. (1640) III If he seek to heart-strike us, That are spectators, with his misery [L. si curat cor spectantis tetigisse querella]. 1797 T. Park Sonnets 6 Heart-stricken deeply by some barbed grief. 1872 Scribner's Monthly Feb. 451/1 Then they all looked at each other, heart-struck by what seemed to them the success of their deception. 2006 D. Applegate Most Famous Man Amer. 226 The pastor was heart-struck by the girls' plight. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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