单词 | slaughtering |
释义 | slaughteringn. The action of the verb (in various senses); (also) an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [noun] sleightc893 wal-slaught?a900 qualeeOE deathOE swordc1000 morthOE slaughta1225 destroyingc1300 drepingc1300 martyrdomc1325 murderc1325 mortc1330 sleighterc1330 slaughter1338 iron and firea1387 murraina1387 manslaughtera1400 martyre?a1400 quella1425 occision?a1430 decease1513 destruction1526 slaughting1535 butchery?1536 butchering1572 massacrea1578 slaughterdom1592 slaughtering1597 carnage1600 massacring1600 slaughtery1604 internecion1610 decimationa1613 destroy1616 trucidation1623 stragea1632 sword-wrack1646 interemption1656 carnifice1657 panolethry1668 butcher work1808 bloodbath1814 populicide1824 man-slaughtering1851 battue1864 mass murder1917 genocide1944 overkill1957 1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xlviii. 647 By treacheries, poisonings, slaughterings, and such like Scythian kindnesses. 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης iv. 38 To turne his slashing at the Court Gate, to slaughtering in the Field. 1711 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 165 The slaughtering of a great number. a1822 P. B. Shelley Cyclops in Posthumous Poems (1824) 346 Axes for Ætnean slaughterings. 1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 7 Since the opening of the public abattoir, all private slaughtering..is strictly prohibited. Compounds General attributive, as slaughtering-house, slaughtering stock, etc. ΚΠ 1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. iii. 64 The estancias and slaughtering-houses. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 280 His slaughtering stock before the knife would pine. 1891 Month 72 18 Ice-houses, slaughtering-yards. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2018). slaughteringadj. 1. a. That slaughters; killing, slaying. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [adjective] butcherly1528 butcherlike1555 butchering1574 butcherous1575 massacring1585 slaughtering?1592 massacrous1593 butchery1626 carnificial1632 internecine1642 murdering1667 carnificine1681 genocidal1948 ?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda iii. i Inforce me sheath my slaughtering blade In the deare bowels of my countrimen. 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus v. iii. 143 Hither hale that misbelieuing Moore, To be adiudge some dyrefull slaughtring death. 1673 J. Milton On Death Fair Infant x, in Poems (new ed.) 20 To..drive away the slaughtering pestilence. 1679 C. Ness Distinct Disc. Antichrist 211 Ministers have..ever been the sacrifices for slaughtering tyrants. b. transferred or figurative. (Cf. killing adj.) ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [adjective] > harmful or injurious litherc893 scathefulc900 orneOE teenfulOE atterlichc1050 evilc1175 wicka1250 scathela1300 deringa1325 unkindc1330 harmfula1340 ill1340 wicked1340 shrewdc1380 noisomea1382 venomed1382 noyfulc1384 damageousc1386 infectivea1398 unwholesomea1400 annoying?c1400 mischievous1414 damnablec1420 contagiousc1430 mischievable?a1439 damagefulc1449 damageable1474 unhappy1474 nuisable1483 nocible1490 nuisible1490 nuisant1494 noxiousa1500 nocent?c1500 hurtful1526 sinistral1534 nocive1538 offendent1547 offensivea1548 dangerous1548 naughtya1555 dispendious1557 offensible1575 wrackful1578 baneful1579 hindersome1580 scandalizing1593 damnifiable1604 taking1608 toadish1611 illful1613 nocivousc1616 mischieving1621 nocuous1627 obnoxious1638 nocumentous1644 vicious1656 nocumental1657 abnoxious1680 dungeonable1691 offending1694 hurtsomea1699 nociferous1706 sinister1726 damnific1727 hazardous1748 slaughtering1811 damaging1856 damnous1870 lethal1942 1811 Sporting Mag. 38 184 Having thus far described the slaughtering rounds of this fight. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 303/2 A little master, working, as he called it, ‘at a slaughtering pace’, for a warehouse. 1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling viii. 263 The most slaughtering way of fishing for greyling is with the grasshopper. 2. Of prices: Of the nature of a sacrifice; lower than is profitable. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > low price or rate > [adjective] > very bottom1561 giveaway1872 rock-bottom1873 slaughtering1898 1898 Daily News 29 Mar. 9/4 In the export yarn trade there is a turn for the worse in values, owing to sales at slaughtering prices from stock. Derivatives ˈslaughteringly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > [adverb] killingly1641 slaughteringly1836 1836 E. Howard Rattlin xxxvii They waxed..cuttingly polite, then slaughteringly sarcastic. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1597adj.?1592 |
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