| 单词 | to bring low |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto bring low P4. to bring low: to bring to a poor or undesirable condition, with respect to health, wealth, strength, or circumstances; to humble; (also) to bring further down, esp. towards the ground or some other downward limit. Cf. low-brought adj. at Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)] anitherOE fellOE lowc1175 to lay lowc1225 to set adownc1275 snuba1340 meekc1350 depose1377 aneantizea1382 to bring lowa1387 declinea1400 meekenc1400 to pull downc1425 avalec1430 to-gradea1440 to put downc1440 humble1484 alow1494 deject?1521 depress1526 plucka1529 to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533 to bring down1535 to bring basec1540 adbass1548 diminish1560 afflict1561 to take down1562 to throw down1567 debase1569 embase1571 diminute1575 to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576 exinanite1577 to take (a person) a peg lower1589 to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589 disbasea1592 to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592 comb-cut1593 unpuff1598 atterr1605 dismount1608 annihilate1610 crest-fall1611 demit1611 pulla1616 avilea1617 to put a scorn on, upon1633 mortify1639 dimit1658 to put a person's pipe out1720 to let down1747 to set down1753 humiliate1757 to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789 start1821 squabash1822 to wipe a person's eye1823 to crop the feathers of1827 embarrass1839 to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864 to sit upon ——1864 squelch1864 to cut out of all feather1865 to sit on ——1868 to turn down1870 to score off1882 to do (a person) in the eye1891 puncture1908 to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908 to cut down to size1927 flatten1932 to slap (a person) down1938 punk1963 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > degrading or debasement > degrade [verb (transitive)] vile1297 supplanta1382 to bring lowa1387 revilea1393 gradea1400 villain1412 abject?a1439 to-gradea1440 vilifyc1450 villainy1483 disparage1496 degradea1500 deject?1521 disgraduate1528 disgress1528 regrade1534 base1538 diminute1575 lessen1579 to turn down1581 to pitch (a person) over the bar?1593 disesteem1594 degender1596 unnoble1598 disrank1599 reduce1599 couch1602 disthrone1603 displume1606 unplume1621 disnoble1622 disworth?1623 villainize1623 unglory1626 ungraduate1633 disennoble1645 vilicate1646 degraduate1649 bemean1651 deplume1651 lower1653 cheapen1654 dethrone1659 diminish1667 scoundrel1701 sink1706 demean1715 abjectate1731 unglorifya1740 unmagnify1747 undignify1768 to take the shine out of (less frequently from, U.S. off)1819 dishero1838 misdemean1843 downgrade1892 demote1919 objectify1973 the world > health and disease > ill health > cause to be ill [verb (transitive)] sicka1340 distemperc1380 to bring low1530 distemperate1547 unsound1560 sicken1694 qualm1733 sicklify1851 the world > health and disease > ill health > cause to be ill [verb (transitive)] > make weak fellOE wastec1230 faintc1386 endull1395 resolvea1398 afaintc1400 defeat?c1400 dissolvec1400 weakc1400 craze1476 feeblish1477 debilite1483 overfeeble1495 plucka1529 to bring low1530 debilitate1541 acraze1549 decaya1554 infirma1555 weaken1569 effeeble1571 enervate1572 enfeeble1576 slay1578 to pull downa1586 prosternate1593 shake1594 to lay along1598 unsinew1598 languefy1607 enerve1613 pulla1616 dispirit1647 imbecilitate1647 unstring1700 to run down1733 sap1755 reduce1767 prostrate1780 shatter1785 undermine1812 imbecile1829 disinvigorate1844 devitalize1849 wreck1850 atrophy1865 crumple1892 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 277 His sone Occe..was byseged at Ȝork, and [i]-brouȝte lowe [L. humiliato]. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 468/1 For all his great bely, this syckenesse hath brought hym lowe ynoughe. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Sam. ii. 7 The Lorde..bryngeth lowe and exalteth. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 2 Quhen he saw the vertues of the Bruse..and how laich [he] was brocht. 1611 Bible (King James) Job xl. 12 Looke on euery one that is proud, and bring him low . View more context for this quotation 1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. i. 30 His father..brought his estate so low, as to want even necessaries. 1706 J. Oldmixon Iberia Liberata 6 Heav'ns dread Vengeance tho its Pace is slow, Strikes Home and brings the proud Aspirer Low. 1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 294 The nobles of Savoy..have long since been brought low. 1819 P. B. Shelley Julian & Maddalo 601 Perhaps remorse had brought her low. 1859 Christian Repository June 463 I thought I would bring the soaring eagle low! 1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust (Boston ed.) II. ii. iii. 176 At one quick blow Shoot, and bring low! 1926 Bee (Danville, Va.) 24 Sept. 4/2 (headline) The prognosticants are brought low. 2011 Church Times 25 Nov. 21/2 It is the latter, Bosie, who is the seductress, and Wilde is Herod, brought low by this need to please the boy. < as lemmas |
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