单词 | smashed-up |
释义 | > as lemmassmashed-up 1. Crushed; broken to pieces. Also figurative and smashed-down, smashed-up. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [adjective] > bursting, shattering, or breaking into pieces > shattered or smashed forfrushedc1330 forbrittened?a1400 shivereda1542 shattering1567 dishivered1624 shattered1667 splintered1719 smashed-upa1822 a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III i, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 238/2 Smashed glass—and nothing more! 1857 J. Hamilton Lessons from Great Biogr. (1859) 289 A pile of smashed pillars and scorched timbers. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 251 A mass of slimy gray abomination on a bit of plantain leaf—smashed snail. 1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 227/1 Smashed (Navy), reduced in rank. 1915 J. Webster Dear Enemy 325 Our poor smashed-up doctor. 1918 W. S. Churchill in M. Gilbert Winston S. Churchill (1977) IV. Compan. i. 365 Ought we to build our lives & policy & the future arrangement of the world on the unreal basis of a smashed-up Russia & an invincible Germany. 1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 109/1 Smashed, to have lost all material possessions. 1938 E. Blunden in Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Oct. 633/2 Nor the dead in smashed-down den. 1982 J. Hansen Gravedigger iii. 24 No abandoned or smashed-up Rollses. < as lemmas |
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