| 单词 | to run to earth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto run to earth a. to run to earth: to chase (a hunted animal) to an earth; (frequently figurative) to capture or find (a person or thing) after a long search. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > seizing > catching or capture > catch or capture [verb (transitive)] > after a search to run to earth1815 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 322 It wad be a sair thing to leave the blessed sun, and the free air, and gang and be killed, like a tod that's run to earth, in a dungeon like that. 1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago III. x. 312 Frightened; beat; run to earth myself, though I talked so bravely of running others to earth just now. 1876 A. S. Palmer Leaves from Word-hunter's Notebk. Pref. p. viii I have run it [sc. a word] to earth in a Sanscrit root. 1888 Spectator 7 Jan. 20/2 All the men who helped to run to earth the various members of the Ruthven family..were richly rewarded. 1915 Truth (Sydney) 13 June 10/3 The police are continually running these dingoes of society to earth. 1953 ‘F. O'Connor’ Stories 63 Eventually he would run her to earth in some snug with a couple of cronies. 2006 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 6 July b3 In the case of the individual fox that gets run to earth by a pack of slavering dogs, the end is not pretty. < as lemmas |
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