| 单词 | to bate one's breath |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto bate one's breath a. transitive. To lessen in force or intensity; to mitigate, moderate, assuage, diminish. Now chiefly in to bate one's breath: to restrain one's breathing, and make it soft and gentle. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > make less violent or severe [verb (transitive)] temperc1000 keelc1175 slakea1300 abate?c1335 settle1338 swagea1340 modifyc1385 rebatea1398 bate1398 moder1414 releasea1425 remiss?a1425 moderate1435 alethe?1440 delaya1450 appal1470 addulce1477 mollify1496 mean?a1513 relent1535 qualify1536 temperatea1540 aplake1578 slack1589 relaxate1598 milden1603 mitigate1611 relax1612 alleniate1615 allay1628 alloy1634 castigate1653 smoothen1655 tendera1656 mitify1656 meeken1662 remitigate1671 obviscate1684 slacken1685 chastise1704 dulcify1744 absorb1791 demulceate1817 chasten1856 modulate1974 mediate1987 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xiii. xxi. 452 Takyth fro us the beemes of the sonne and batyth heete therof. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 10942 And dow þai þar-fore murnand were, þai batid it mekil wid þair chere. 1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 112 With some dareing drugg, Baite thy disease. a1657 G. Daniel Idyllia in Poems (1878) IV. v. 105 Let's sift the World; and bate yt Proverbe's force. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede (ed. 4) I. i. iv. 68 To his dying day he bated his breath a little when he told the story. < as lemmas |
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