| 单词 | to drub to death |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto drub (a person) to death b. Const. to drub (a person) to death, into or out of something; (a thing, a notion) into or out of a person. Π 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 98 Made the Petitioner be almost drubd to death. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 172 He is almost drubd (with many terrible bastinadoes on the soles of his feet) to death. 1687 T. Brown Saints in Uproar in Wks. (1730) I. 80 Let us drub these lobsters into better manners. 1716 London Gaz. No. 5460/3 He had been barbarously drubbed to Death [in Algiers]. 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iv. 269. 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. lxv. 216 Those foolish notions..ought to be drubb'd out of you. 1791 W. Maxwell in J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1770 I. 342 [Paraphrasing Johnson:] We had drubbed those fellows into a proper reverence for us. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. viii. 203 If the leaven of thy malignancy is altogether drubbed out of thee. < as lemmas |
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