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单词 to change sides
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to change (†one's) sides
d. to change (†one's) sides: to withdraw one's support from one side and give it to another in a battle, dispute, etc.; to change allegiance.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > reverse or abandon one's purpose [verb (intransitive)] > desert one's party or principles
declinec1374
starta1450
revert?a1525
to fall away1535
to turn (one's) tippet1546
revolt1549
shrink1553
to turn one's coat1565
to come over1576
apostate1596
to change (one's) sides1596
defect1596
renegade1611
to change foot1618
to run over1643
to face about1645
apostatize1648
tergiverse1675
tergiversate1678
desert1689
apostasize1696
renegado1731
rat1810
to cross the floor1822
turncoat1892
to take (the) soup1907
turn1977
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. ix. sig. I3v They change their sides, and new parts take. View more context for this quotation
1612 tr. I. Casaubon Answere Epist. Peron Ep. Ded. sig. A4 Two yeeres agoe being deeply indebted,..[he] changde sides, and fled vnto the aduerse part.
1650 L. Dyve Let. to New-Castle 19 Most of my Lord of Inchiquins foot..changed sides, and revolted to the enemy.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 268 He..changed sides so often, that in conclusion no side trusted him.
1849 J. K. Paulding Puritan & his Daughter I. vi. 133 A very ancient and noble family, that had become illustrious by changing sides some sixteen or eighteen times during the wars of York and Lancaster.
1940 ‘G. Orwell’ Inside Whale 82 One has got to change sides when the underdog becomes an upperdog.
2010 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 13 Jan. a12 Leading politicians, anxiously eyeing the polls, change sides at the last moment.
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