单词 | to go to rack |
释义 | > as lemmasto go (etc.) to rack (and ruin) 1. Destruction. Chiefly in to go (etc.) to rack (and ruin): to fall into a state of total neglect, disrepair, or ruin. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > state of being destroyed or ruined lossc897 losingc950 lore971 destructionc1330 forlesing1340 lostc1374 undoing1377 perditiona1382 shendc1400 decay1535 rack1599 undoneness1835 wanthrift1929 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (intransitive)] > be destroyed, ruined, or come to an end losec888 fallOE forlesea1225 perishc1275 spilla1300 to go to wreche13.. to go to the gatec1330 to go to lostc1374 miscarryc1387 quenchc1390 to bring unto, to fall into, to go, put, or work to wrakea1400 mischieve?a1400 tinea1400 to go to the devilc1405 bursta1450 untwindc1460 to make shipwreck1526 to go to (the) pot1531 to go to wreck (and ruin)a1547 wrake1570 wracka1586 to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587 to lie in the dusta1591 mischief1598 to go (etc.) to rack (and ruin)1599 shipwreck1607 suffera1616 unravel1643 to fall off1684 tip (over) the perch1699 to do away with1769 to go to the dickens1833 collapse1838 to come (also go) a mucker1851 mucker1862 to go up1864 to go to squash1889 to go (to) stramash1910 to go for a burton1941 to meet one's Makera1978 1599 in T. Fowler Hist. Corpus Christi Coll. (1893) 349 In the mean season the College shall goe to rack and ruin. a1609 L. Andrewes Serm. (1841) II. 249 Between Jehu and Jeroboam Solomon's seed went to rack. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 821 A World devote to universal rack . View more context for this quotation 1706 Disc. on Land-bank ii. ii. 52 Cottages tumbling down, and every thing running to rack and ruin. 1782 E. Blower George Bateman II. 126 Everything would soon go to sixes and sevens, and rack and ruin. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xx. 190 I can't renounce my own son..I couldn't do it; so we must go to rack and ruin, Kate, my dear. 1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel III. vii. 188 If the world's not coming to rack. 1874 F. C. Burnand My Time xxxiii. 346 His academicals..run to..utter rack and ruin. 1904 J. London Sea-wolf xvii. 165 In spite of rack and ruin a rough order obtained. 1938 L. MacNeice Earth Compels 40 The garden is going to rack, the gardener Only comes three days. 1991 D. Dabydeen Intended (1992) 234 The whole business is going to rack and ruin. < as lemmas |
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