单词 | to rip up old sores |
释义 | > as lemmasto rip up old sores 2. transitive. To open up (a wound or sore) again in a rough or harsh manner. Frequently figurative (esp. to rip up old sores). Cf. also sense 4. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > aggravate a wound salta1300 to rip up1565 1565 T. Stapleton Fortresse of Faith f. 150 Let vs..rippe vp the deadly woundes of our greuous iniquites. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2121/1 They..began to refricate and rippe vp the old sore. 1641 R. Greville Disc. Nature Episcopacie 96 I profess I take no pleasure in ripping up their foule loathsome sores. 1679 J. Goodman Penitent Pardoned iii. vi. 379 He will not rake in men's wounds, nor rip up their old sores. 1733 J. Smith Misery of Ignorant & Unconverted Sinners 16 'Tis better the Wound should be rip'd up, than that the miserable Patient should die of it and perish. 1798 S. Porter tr. A. von Kotzebue Lovers' Vows iv. ii. 72 O mon Colonel, you rip up an old wound. 1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd II. iv. ix. 76 It's little my part to rip up old sores. 1866 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. v. iii. 450 The two having taken opposite sides on that measure,..got provoked into ripping up old sores in general. 1914 E. T. Thurston Achievement i. xvii. 136 Every word you said was like a surgeon's knife ripping up old wounds. 1969 J. Fisher Afrikaners iv. 55 But what is the use of ripping up old sores? This happened when I was a boy, and I am now old and grey. < as lemmas |
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