单词 | to make plain |
释义 | > as lemmasto make (a building, etc.) plain (with the earth) 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 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) 22532 (MED) Þe sixte day..Al þis world shal be made pleyn. ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 48 (MED) Þis citee tuke Iosue..& kest it doune, and made it euen playne with þe erthe. a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 164 Prey hem þat þei restore þe pore men to her lond, breke down þe heggis, make pleyn þe dykes, and þen schal I haue rest. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 94 He threwe downe the Castell plaine with the ground. 1596 J. Harington New Disc. Aiax sig. F7v Downe downe with it at any hand, make all thing plaine, let nothing stand. a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 12 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) It was his policie to leave no hold behinde him, but to make all plaine and waste. 1604 M. Drayton Owle sig. Dv Supplant the Alps and lay them smooth and plaine. 1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. 48 The greatest part of their City..beaten down plain with the ground. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iii. 331 A multitude with Spades and Axes arm'd To lay hills plain, fell woods, or valleys fill. View more context for this quotation < as lemmas |
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