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单词 to put out a person's eyes
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to put out a person's eyes
(i) to put out a person's eyes: to deprive a person of the power of sight, esp. violently. Also figurative and hyperbolical.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > afflict with disordered vision [verb (transitive)] > blind
blendc888
forblendc1175
blindfoldc1320
to put out a person's eyesc1325
blinda1400
dark?c1400
darken?a1425
quenchc1450
excecate?1540
stark blind1574
beblind1575
douta1616
unsight?1615
benight1621
emblind1631
occaecate1664
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 7713 Me ssolde pulte out boþe is eye, & makye him pur blind.
1573 J. Bridges tr. Erasmus in Supremacie Christian Princes 610 A madde and fierce kinde of men, whiche murthered with swordes, maymed with Sythes, and with Lyme mingled with Vinegar put oute the eyes of the true beleeuers.
a1609 T. Playfere Ten Serm. (1610) 24 This plaister seemes more likely to put out his eyes which sees, then to cure his eyes who is blind.
1699 R. L'Estrange Fables Moralized lxxxvi. 86 One part of the World have their Eyes put out with the Flashes of his Dazling Beams.
1706 Rom. Hist. IV. viii. 438 Andronicus's Eyes being to be put out with scalding-hot Vinegar.
1820 F. MacDonogh Hermit in London V. xcii. 35 Another street nuisance is your poke-bonnet ladies, who sometimes put out your eyes with these pent-house projections.
1929 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 22 This blinding white vapor remains unconquered. It continues to put out the eyes of traffic on land, sea, and air.
1993 P. Ackroyd House of Dr. Dee (1994) iii. 97 It is very bright there, sir, the brightness puts out my eyes.
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