单词 | slaughtered |
释义 | slaughteredadj. 1. Of animals (or flesh): Killed for food, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killing of animals > [adjective] slaughtered1594 sphagian1607 in at the kill1814 serpenticidal1823 vulpicidal1826 ovicidal1847 insecticidal1857 ursicidal1857 passericidala1876 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. iii. 223 Lord Bassianus lies bereaud in blood, All on a heape like to a slaughtered Lambe. View more context for this quotation 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 48/1 Water wherinne slaughtered fleshe hath binn washed. 1640 T. Carew Poems 10 A slaughter'd bull will appease angry Iove. 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iii. xvii. 103 Underneath yon jutting crag Are hunters and a slaughter'd stag. 1837 P. Keith Bot. Lexicon 390 The muscle of slaughtered animals..forms also an agreeable..food for man. 2. Of persons: Killed, slain; massacred. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [adjective] > slaughtered snetched1567 butchered1584 massacred1590 slaughtered1594 carnaged1796 shambled1900 pogromed1918 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. K1v A weeping teare, Shed for the slaughtred husband by the wife. View more context for this quotation 1669 Bp. E. Hopkins Serm. 1 Peter (1685) (ii. 13) 4 Our most unfeigned mourning for a slaughtered Monarch. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 125 Heaps of slaughter'd Souldiers bite the Ground. View more context for this quotation 1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes (new ed.) I. iii. iii. 68 Thrice shall her Matrons..Deplore their slaughter'd Sons. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. viii. 316 Another had marched.., over heaps of slaughtered Moslem, to the sepulchre of Christ. 3. slang. (See quot. 1892.) ΚΠ 1892 Star 19 Dec. 2/5 Furniture made by ‘slaughtered’ (i.e., extra sweated) cabinet makers. Draft additions June 2006 British slang. Very drunk. ΚΠ 1986 New Mus. Express 11 Oct. 25 [In list of terms for drunkenness] Slaughtered. 1997 Neon May 28/2 I was..fucking slaughtered. The film set was spinning. 2005 Arena May 96/1 The types you see in bog-standard Booze Britain have been getting slaughtered in city centres for as long as I can remember. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1594 |
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