† accablev.

Forms: 1600s accable, 1800s accabléd (past participle).

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French accabler.

Etymology: < French accabler to overwhelm, crush (a person) (first third of the 14th cent. in Old French or Middle French as acchaabler ; 1329 in sense ‘to knock down, overturn (trees)’; 1423 in sense ‘to knock down and injure (a person)’) < a- a- prefix⁵ + Old French (Normandy), Middle French cabler (originally of the wind) to knock (a person or thing) down (1251; < Old French caable , variant (with elision of medial -d- ) of cadable catapult (c1100: see cable n.)). In form accabléd after the French past participle accablé.

Obsolete.

transitive. To overwhelm, crush.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > crush, stifle, or overwhelm (feelings, etc.)

shendOE

whelvec1000

allayOE

ofdrunkenc1175

quenchc1175

quashc1275

stanchc1315

quella1325

slockena1340

drenchc1374

vanquishc1380

stuffa1387

daunt?a1400

adauntc1400

to put downa1425

overwhelmc1425

overwhelvec1450

quatc1450

slockc1485

suppressa1500

suffocate1526

quealc1530

to trample under foot1530

repress1532

quail1533

suppress1537

infringe1543

revocate1547

whelm1553

queasom1561

knetcha1564

squench1577

restinguish1579

to keep down1581

trample1583

repel1592

accable1602

crush1610

to wrestle down?1611

chokea1616

stranglea1616

stifle1621

smother1632

overpower1646

resuppress1654

strangulate1665

instranglea1670

to choke back, down, in, out1690

to nip or crush in the bud1746

spiflicate1749

squasha1777

to get under1799

burke1835

to stamp out1851

to trample down1853

quelch1864

to sit upon ——1864

squelch1864

smash1865

garrotte1878

scotch1888

douse1916

to drive under1920

stomp1936

stultify1958

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > make dejected [verb (transitive)] > severely

to kill one's heart1470

strike1598

accable1602

shatter1785

1602 J. Colville Parænese Ep. 63 Vhose..pietie can not be condinglie extollit by a pen lyk myne so clogged and accabled vith infinit misereis.

a1626 F. Bacon vi. 272 Ord. MS. in R. G. Latham Dict. Eng. Lang. (1872) Honours have no burden but thankfulness, which doth rather raise men's spirits, than accable them or press them down.

a1722 J. Lauder Hist. Observes (1840) 196 Fools..become a prey themselves, and are accabled and ruined under the load of that governement they had undermined.

1812 A. Burr Jrnl. 6 Mar. in Private Jrnl. (1838) II. 338 He burst into the room where we were in a rage, said it was his friend, a man of honour; and accabléd me with a volley of the grossest and most vulgar abuse.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	accable
释义	† accablev. Forms: 1600s accable, 1800s accabléd (past participle). Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French accabler. Etymology: < French accabler to overwhelm, crush (a person) (first third of the 14th cent. in Old French or Middle French as acchaabler ; 1329 in sense ‘to knock down, overturn (trees)’; 1423 in sense ‘to knock down and injure (a person)’) < a- a- prefix⁵ + Old French (Normandy), Middle French cabler (originally of the wind) to knock (a person or thing) down (1251; < Old French caable , variant (with elision of medial -d- ) of cadable catapult (c1100: see cable n.)). In form accabléd after the French past participle accablé. Obsolete. transitive. To overwhelm, crush. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > crush, stifle, or overwhelm (feelings, etc.) shendOE whelvec1000 allayOE ofdrunkenc1175 quenchc1175 quashc1275 stanchc1315 quella1325 slockena1340 drenchc1374 vanquishc1380 stuffa1387 daunt?a1400 adauntc1400 to put downa1425 overwhelmc1425 overwhelvec1450 quatc1450 slockc1485 suppressa1500 suffocate1526 quealc1530 to trample under foot1530 repress1532 quail1533 suppress1537 infringe1543 revocate1547 whelm1553 queasom1561 knetcha1564 squench1577 restinguish1579 to keep down1581 trample1583 repel1592 accable1602 crush1610 to wrestle down?1611 chokea1616 stranglea1616 stifle1621 smother1632 overpower1646 resuppress1654 strangulate1665 instranglea1670 to choke back, down, in, out1690 to nip or crush in the bud1746 spiflicate1749 squasha1777 to get under1799 burke1835 to stamp out1851 to trample down1853 quelch1864 to sit upon ——1864 squelch1864 smash1865 garrotte1878 scotch1888 douse1916 to drive under1920 stomp1936 stultify1958 the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > make dejected [verb (transitive)] > severely to kill one's heart1470 strike1598 accable1602 shatter1785 1602 J. Colville Parænese Ep. 63 Vhose..pietie can not be condinglie extollit by a pen lyk myne so clogged and accabled vith infinit misereis. a1626 F. Bacon vi. 272 Ord. MS. in R. G. Latham Dict. Eng. Lang. (1872) Honours have no burden but thankfulness, which doth rather raise men's spirits, than accable them or press them down. a1722 J. Lauder Hist. Observes (1840) 196 Fools..become a prey themselves, and are accabled and ruined under the load of that governement they had undermined. 1812 A. Burr Jrnl. 6 Mar. in Private Jrnl. (1838) II. 338 He burst into the room where we were in a rage, said it was his friend, a man of honour; and accabléd me with a volley of the grossest and most vulgar abuse. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < v.1602
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