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单词 to gang up
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to gang up
to gang up
Originally U.S.
1. intransitive. To form or join a gang or group (with others); spec. to combine in order to attack or oppose someone or something. Cf. sense 2.
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society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > associate for common purpose [verb (intransitive)]
jousta1325
ally?a1400
joinc1400
associe1441
confederc1460
to stick together1525
band1530
to join forces1560
colleaguec1565
alliance1569
to enter league1578
unite1579
interleague1590
confederate1591
to join hands1598
combine1608
injointa1616
combinda1626
bandy1633
comply1646
federate1648
leaguea1649
associate1653
coalesce1657
to understand each other1663
sociate1688
to row in the same (also in one) boat1787
rendezvous1817
to make common cause (with)1845
to sing the same song1846
cahoot1857
to gang up1910
jungle1922
1910 Chicago Sunday Tribune 13 Feb. v. 2/1 There was a gun fight in the street one day and an awful tough crowd ganged up in a hurry.
1941 L. M. Cobb & M. A. Hicks in J. F. Dobie et al. Texian Stomping Grounds 111 Dey all gangs up den an' makes plans ter run Brer Man out'n dem woods an' ter keep him out'n dar fer all de time.
1959 ‘J. Byrom’ Take only as Directed i. 16 He'll get David to gang up with him and stop me sailing.
1986 R. Reagan in R. E. Weber & R. A. Weber Dear Americans (2003) 259 I was afraid I'd hit some of the photographers who had ganged up around the catcher.
2006 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 5 May 35/1 (headline) Big boys gang up to defeat Rio Tinto.
2. intransitive. With against, on. To combine or form a gang in order to oppose, intimidate, or attack someone or something.
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1919 National Service Nov. 270/1 He's too dern big for any of us to lick separate, and he don't listen to reason, none at all. Looks like we'd have to gang up on him.
1942 D. Powell Time to be Born (1943) xiv. 332 Things must have gone wrong with her!.. Maybe he's got people to gang up against her.
1973 L. Bangs in G. Marcus Psychotic Reactions (1987) 121 The financial angels and bureaucratic bosses of the studio that sponsored and released it ganged up on the poor guy that made the film.
2001 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 18 Oct. a31/1 Do not let China and Russia gang up on us in a trilateral meeting.
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