| 单词 | to level to or with the ground, in the dust |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto level to or with the ground, in the dust a. To bring to the level of the ground; to lay low, lay ‘even with the ground’, to raze. Also to level to or with the ground, in the dust. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > break down, demolish, or ruin spillc950 fellOE to cast downc1230 destroy1297 to turn up?c1335 to throw down1340 to ding downc1380 to break downa1382 subverta1382 underturn1382 to take downc1384 falla1400 to make (a building, etc.) plain (with the earth)a1400 voida1400 brittenc1400 to burst downc1440 to pull downc1450 pluck1481 tumble1487 wreck1510 defacea1513 confound1523 raze1523 arase1530 to beat downc1540 ruinate1548 demolish1560 plane1562 to shovel down1563 race?1567 ruin1585 rape1597 unwall1598 to bluster down16.. raise1603 level1614 debolish1615 unbuilda1616 to make smooth work of1616 slight1640 to knock down1776 squabash1822 collapse1883 to turn over1897 mash1924 rubble1945 to take apart1978 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > bring to the ground/lay low layc888 afelleOE to throw downa1250 groundc1275 to lay to ground, to earth (Sc. at eird)c1275 stoopc1275 evena1382 abatec1390 to bring downa1400 falla1400 welt?a1400 throwa1450 tumble1487 succumb1490 strewa1500 vaila1592 flat1607 level1614 floor1642 to fetch down1705 drop1726 supplant1751 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. iii. §5. 41 All downe-right raines doe..beate downe, and leuell the swelling and mountainous billow of the Sea. 1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. iii. x. 309 He..leuel'd Alexia to the ground with fire. 1685 T. Otway Windsor Castle 13 The Hero levell'd in his humble Grave. 1712 J. Warder True Amazons 35 Here twice ten thousand Houses levell'd are. 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. viii. 229 Many noble trees were levelled with the ground. 1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. iii. vii. 395 Many of those tumuli have been levelled of late. 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. iv. 106 Should I design to level in the dust Some city. 1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz in La Saisiaz: Two Poets of Croisic 12 May-dawn dews Saw the old structure levelled. < as lemmas |
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