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单词 to put to the run
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to put to the run
P1. to put to the run: to cause to run; esp. to cause to run away or flee, esp. in retreating from a superior force. Now somewhat archaic.
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1650 Let. 31 July in C. S. Terry Life & Campaigns A. Leslie (1899) App. 464 Then Col. Lilburnes Regiment..gave them a hot charge, so that many of them fell, broake their bodies, put them to the runne.
1661 S. Pepys Diary 10 Jan. (1970) II. 10 These Fanatiques that have..put the King's lifeguard to the run.
1716 B. Church Entertaining Passages Philip's War ii. 73 The firing put the enemy to the run, who left their canoes and provisions to ours.
1888 Dict. National Biogr. XIV. 258/1 Blake, coming up with a strong reinforcement fresh from the river, completed their rout and put them to the run.
1904 in W. F. Cody Adventures of Buffalo Bill (1905) ii. iv. 139 Then he put his horse to the run and in a moment discovered that a troop of Confederate cavalry was approaching from behind.
1968 L. Crisler Captive Wild viii. 80 Staying at a little distance, not to panic her into flight, I followed... I did not put her to the run but went back and waited by the trees.
1987 L. Ty-Casper Ten Thousand Seeds (1989) 84 Who will say we lost? We put the Yankees to the run so many times.
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