单词 | to level up, down |
释义 | > as lemmasto level up, down b. to level up, down: to bring up, down to the level of something (expressed or implied). Also absol., and intransitive for reflexive. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > make humble [verb (transitive)] edmodienc1175 lowc1175 meekc1175 lessa1382 abatec1390 abasea1393 belowc1400 meekenc1400 disadvance?c1425 simplec1450 lowlyc1485 humilea1492 chasten1526 to pare the nails ofa1549 lessen1579 vail1582 to take (something) a hole lower1591 destate1615 humblea1616 thorough-humblea1617 humiliate1656 level1712 unnichea1751 to level up, down1791 unpedestal1821 to take the starch out of1830 the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > make equal or put on a par or level > by bringing up or down to level up, down1791 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1763 I. 243 [Johnson:] Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. 1809 Sir J. Anstruther Speech House of Commons 11 May in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 20 May 754 Another party..whose object was to level down all public men to their own very humble state. 1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life (1876) iii. viii. 111 To which he may level up. 1897 J. Morley Speech 16 Jan. To level up the beer and spirit duties. < as lemmas |
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