英语词汇“to claw down”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. To seize, grip, clutch, or pull with claws. Also figurative, to claw back, to regain gradually or with great effort; to take back (an allowance by additional taxation, etc.); to claw down, to pull down, to defeat; to shoot down (an aeroplane, etc.).

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the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [verb (transitive)] > seize prey with claws

strain1426

season1530

claw1557

seize1590

maul1848

society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > attack with aircraft [verb (transitive)] > bring down

to bring down1917

to shoot down in flames1918

to claw down1942

clobber1944

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > taxation > levy (a tax) [verb (transitive)] > recover an allowance

to claw back1953

the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > again or back > gradually or with effort

to claw back1957

1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. X.iii For age with stelyng steppes, Hath clawed me with his cowche [1557 (new ed.) crowch].

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 72 But age..hath clawed [1623 caught] me in his clutch.

1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 90 That which claws away world from about them, would, 'tis like, wring out their Planethood from within them.

1751 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 67 I was clawed into the party out of civility.

1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I clxxxv. 95 If at that moment he had chanced to claw it [the sword].

a1863 W. M. Thackeray Denis Duval (1869) iv. 49 His hands..stretched out to claw other folks' money towards himself.

1942 L. E. O. Charlton Britain at War 11 First steps to ‘clawing them down’... A cadet is learning how to handle a machine-gun.

1953 Economist 21 Feb. 499/1 The Government would also make sure that..such tax relief was clawed back from surtax payers.

1957 Economist 30 Nov. 804/2 The Commercial Bank is engaged on a nationalist enterprise—clawing back from the Sassenachs, control of one of Scotland's banks.

1958 Church Times 8 Aug. 3/4 Conditions are even clawing down decent people.

1959 Observer 21 June 26/8 Relaxing round the last bend and clawing back a one-yard deficit in a prolonged battle up the long home straight.

1970 Daily Tel. 30 May 16 This is a special deduction which was introduced by the Finance Act 1968 to enable the Inland Revenue to ‘claw back’ the 10s a week increase in the allowance.

1971 Times 23 Jan. 18/5 The Labour Chancellor should have increased family allowances..and ‘clawed’ it back from richer tax payers.

单词	to claw down
释义	> as lemmas to claw down a. To seize, grip, clutch, or pull with claws. Also figurative, to claw back, to regain gradually or with great effort; to take back (an allowance by additional taxation, etc.); to claw down, to pull down, to defeat; to shoot down (an aeroplane, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [verb (transitive)] > seize prey with claws strain1426 season1530 claw1557 seize1590 maul1848 society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > attack with aircraft [verb (transitive)] > bring down to bring down1917 to shoot down in flames1918 to claw down1942 clobber1944 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > taxation > levy (a tax) [verb (transitive)] > recover an allowance to claw back1953 the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > again or back > gradually or with effort to claw back1957 1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. X.iii For age with stelyng steppes, Hath clawed me with his cowche [1557 (new ed.) crowch]. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 72 But age..hath clawed [1623 caught] me in his clutch. View more context for this quotation 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 90 That which claws away world from about them, would, 'tis like, wring out their Planethood from within them. 1751 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 67 I was clawed into the party out of civility. 1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I clxxxv. 95 If at that moment he had chanced to claw it [the sword]. a1863 W. M. Thackeray Denis Duval (1869) iv. 49 His hands..stretched out to claw other folks' money towards himself. 1942 L. E. O. Charlton Britain at War 11 First steps to ‘clawing them down’... A cadet is learning how to handle a machine-gun. 1953 Economist 21 Feb. 499/1 The Government would also make sure that..such tax relief was clawed back from surtax payers. 1957 Economist 30 Nov. 804/2 The Commercial Bank is engaged on a nationalist enterprise—clawing back from the Sassenachs, control of one of Scotland's banks. 1958 Church Times 8 Aug. 3/4 Conditions are even clawing down decent people. 1959 Observer 21 June 26/8 Relaxing round the last bend and clawing back a one-yard deficit in a prolonged battle up the long home straight. 1970 Daily Tel. 30 May 16 This is a special deduction which was introduced by the Finance Act 1968 to enable the Inland Revenue to ‘claw back’ the 10s a week increase in the allowance. 1971 Times 23 Jan. 18/5 The Labour Chancellor should have increased family allowances..and ‘clawed’ it back from richer tax payers. extracted from clawv. < as lemmas
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