| 单词 | to bleed to death |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto bleed to death e. to bleed to death: to bleed so much that one dies. Also figurative. ΚΠ c1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 116 Lete a fesaunt..blede to deth..& kutt a-wey the necke by the body. 1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. ix. 482 Will not the dread of dolefull day..by litle and litle cut quite the throte of it, and make it bleede to death in vs? 1648 J. Raymond Itinerary Voy. Italy 95 [A statue of] Seneca bleeding to death, of Jet. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1778 II. 243 Johnson: It is a sad thing for a man..to bleed to death, because he has not fortitude enough to sear the wound. 1872 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia (new ed.) viii. 118 The arteries being divided, the animal would quickly bleed to death. 1936 ‘R. Hyde’ Passport to Hell 119 The men crept away into their dug-outs and bled to death. 2005 S. Rushdie Shalimar the Clown 4 The ambassador was slaughtered on her doorstep like a halal chicken dinner, bleeding to death from a deep neck wound. < as lemmas |
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