| 单词 | to lay in ashes |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto lay in ashes 3. transferred or figurative. Ruins, remains. to lay in ashes: to burn to the ground, destroy utterly. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > demolition > a ruin or wreck > ruins tatter1402 ash1553 downfall1575 destruction1585 parietines1621 masure1623 detriments1632 wreck1713 wrecking1855 lagan1906 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > devastate or lay waste (a place, etc.) harryc893 fordoc900 awesteeOE westeeOE losec950 harrowc1000 destroyc1230 wastec1275 ravishc1325 to lie waste1338 exilea1382 to-wastea1382 unronea1400 desolatea1425 vast1434 fruster?a1513 to lay waste1535 wipe1535 devast1537 depopulate1548 populate1552 forwaste1563 ruinate1564 havoc1575 scourge1576 dispopulate1588 destitute1593 ravage1602 harassa1618 devastate1638 execute1679 to make stroy of1682 to lay in ashes1711 untown1783 hell-rake1830 uncity1850 1553 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Eneados ii. vii. 122 O ȝe cauld assis of Troy. 1647 A. Cowley Given Heart in Mistress iv Then shall Love keep the ashes..Of both our broken Hearts. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 163. ¶7 Whole Kingdoms laid in Ashes. 1877 Bryant Ruins Italica The envy of earth's cities once wert thou—A weary solitude and ashes now! 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xii. 159 Where the ashes of the Sertorian rebellion were still smouldering. < as lemmas |
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