| 单词 | to bury a person alive |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto bury a person alive a. To put under ground for the same purposes as a corpse, e.g. to bury a person alive; to consign to the ground any carcass, decaying organized matter, rubbish, etc.; also, other things, in sign of their final abandonment or abrogation. to bury the hatchet: see hatchet n. Phrases 2a(a); cf. also war-hatchet n. at war n.1 Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > peace > be at peace [verb (intransitive)] > cease hostilities to sheathe the swordc1430 to bury the hatchet1535 truce1569 society > armed hostility > peace > pacification > make peace [verb (intransitive)] to make grithc1000 grith11.. to make peace?a1160 peasec1300 to inform the peace?a1400 to bury the hatchet1535 seal1596 pacificate1646 to beat swords into ploughshares1924 Locarnize1925 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > cover over or up > under the ground or bury delvec1175 indelve1382 mine?1440 dig1530 bury1535 inter1601 inhume1626 turf1628 earthen1708 inearth1801 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. xxii. 19 As an Asse shall he be buried. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) v. i. 55 I'le breake my staffe, Bury it certaine fadomes in the earth. View more context for this quotation < as lemmas |
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