| 单词 | to beat the breast |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto beat the breast a. transitive. To strike with repeated blows. to beat the breast: i.e. in sign of sorrow. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] abeatOE beatc1000 dingc1300 dintc1300 bulka1400 batc1440 hampera1529 pommel1530 lump1546 pummel1548 bebatter1567 filch1567 peal-pelt1582 reverberate1599 vapulate1603 over-labour1632 polt1652 bepat1676 flog1801 quilt1822 meller1862 tund1885 massage1924 society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > beat threshOE beatc1000 to lay on?c1225 chastise1362 rapa1400 dressc1405 lack?c1475 paya1500 currya1529 coil1530 cuff1530 baste1533 thwack1533 lick1535 firka1566 trounce1568 fight1570 course1585 bumfeage1589 feague1589 lamback1589 lambskin1589 tickle1592 thrash1593 lam1595 bumfeagle1598 comb1600 fer1600 linge1600 taw1600 tew1600 thrum1604 feeze1612 verberate1614 fly-flap1620 tabor1624 lambaste1637 feak1652 flog1676 to tan (a person's) hide1679 slipper1682 liquora1689 curry-comb1708 whack1721 rump1735 screenge1787 whale1790 lather1797 tat1819 tease1819 larrup1823 warm1824 haze1825 to put (a person) through a course of sprouts1839 flake1841 swish1856 hide1875 triangle1879 to give (a person or thing) gyp1887 soak1892 to loosen (a person's) hide1902 the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > other manifestations of sorrow > manifest sorrow [verb (intransitive)] > beat the breast to beat the breastc1390 c1000 Ags. Ps. lx. 1 Nu me caru beateð heard æt heortan. c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. v. 227 Bet þi- self on þe Breste. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. lii. 944 Þis tre ebenus..torneþ into stoon if it is longe ybete [1495 de Worde beten]. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III ii. ii. 3 Why doe you wring your hands, and beate your breast. View more context for this quotation 1740 G. Smith tr. Laboratory (ed. 2) App. p. xxiii Then wring it out and beat it. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 98. ⁋13 At what hour they may beat the door of an acquaintance. 1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere i, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 8 The wedding-guest he beat his breast, Yet he cannot chuse but hear. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxiv. 91 He plays with threads, he beats his chair. View more context for this quotation < as lemmas |
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