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单词 to do down
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to do down
to do down
1. transitive. To put down; to take down; to lower; to subdue; to depose. Obsolete.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > take down
to do downc1175
to take downa1400
reach1483
OE tr. Medicina de Quadrupedibus (Vitell.) ii. 238 Eft do hyne [sc. æppel] adune [?a1200 Harl. 6258B ætdun] & onlut.]
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 11357 Ȝiff þatt tu godess sune arrt..Cumm skaþelæs till eorþe. Do þe nu þurrh þe sellfenn dun.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xxxviii. 19 Þe habyte done doun þat sche toke.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Mark xv. 36 Se we, if Hely come for to do hym down.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 19167 Euer wiþ conquest ȝe do vs doun.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 90 To wend with Sir Dunkan, & do Dufnald doune.
?a1425 Constit. Masonry (Royal 17 A.i) l. 603 in J. O. Halliwell Early Hist. Freemasonry in Eng. (1844) 34 Furst thou most do down thy hode.
1587 G. Turberville Tragicall Tales f. 111 And do their wrathful weapons down.
2. transitive. colloquial. To overcome, get the better of, bring to grief; to cheat, swindle; to disparage, belittle.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)]
overcomeeOE
forecomec1000
overwieldlOE
masterc1225
overmaistrie1340
overmatcha1375
overpassa1382
surmount1390
to have the fairer (of)c1400
maistriec1400
overmasterc1425
winc1440
overc1485
bestride1526
rixlec1540
overreach1555
control1567
overmate1567
govern1593
to give (a person) the lurch1598
get1600
to gain cope of1614
top1633
to fetch overa1640
down1641
to have the whip hand (of)1680
carberry1692
to cut down1713
to be more than a match for1762
outflank1773
outmaster1799
outgeneral1831
weather1834
best1839
fore-reach1845
to beat a person at his (also her, etc.) own game1849
scoop1850
euchrec1866
bemaster1871
negotiate1888
to do down1900
to get (someone) wetc1926
lick1946
1900 Cassell's Mag. 20 510/1 If he gets a chance of doing us down, do us down he will.
1911 H. Walpole Mr. Perrin & Mr. Traill viii. 154 He saw nothing but a spiteful and malignant world trying, as he phrased it, to ‘do him down’.
1922 D. H. Lawrence England my England 257 Poor Fanny! She was such a lady, and so straight and magnificent. And yet everything seemed to do her down.
1923 Daily Mail 12 Mar. 6 Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen..said they had been done down by what had been rightly called an act of treachery.
1936 L. A. G. Strong Last Enemy 13 To get your rights from Fosdyke was to cheat him, since he had never meant you to have them... It was a real injury to stop him from doing you down.
1958 Economist 29 Nov. 784/1 School for them is the great game of doing down, or being done down by, the teacher.
1980 Daily Tel. 29 May 14/3 Yet no biographer quite succeeded in doing down the unsullied image of the snow-white Quakeress.
1992 J. Cartwright Rise & Fall of Little Voice ii. 48 Don't do yoursen down Ray. You're Elvis in my eyes.
2000 M. Barrowcliffe Girlfriend 44 i. 24 I would carry grudges, plot revenge.., if I could just notice or recall when people had done me down.
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