| 单词 | to take the sting out of |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take the sting out of b. In generalized sense: Stinging quality, capacity to sting or hurt; a (specified) degree or amount of this. Frequently in to take the sting out of (something). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > severity > [noun] tartnessc1000 asperity?c1225 hardship?c1225 smartness1340 duressc1400 straitnessc1460 hardlaikc1540 severeness1579 sorenessa1586 grievousness1611 severity1835 sting1860 the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > [noun] > quality grievousheada1400 painfulnessc1400 importunityc1475 grievousness1509 grievesomeness1583 sting1860 distressfulness1890 plangency1900 the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > [noun] > that which causes rack1607 sting1900 1860 Baily's Monthly Mag. Oct. 42 Hayward's..rare defence completely took the sting out of the Surrey bowling. 1863 Frederick Lillywhite's Cricket Scores & Biogr. Cricketers III. 74 He..often took the ‘sting’ out of the bowling, by getting his runs remarkably slow. 1876 G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay II. vii. 4 This passage, as it now stands, has been deprived of half its sting. 1893 ‘Q’ Delectable Duchy 342 The firemen..robbed the epigram of all its sting. 1896 Daily News 29 June 7/2 When once collared the Yorkshire bowling lacks sting. 1900 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough (ed. 2) III. 92 To give more sting to every blow the whip-lashes are knotted. 1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 24 It has taken the sting out of the Adjutant. 1956 ‘B. Holiday’ & W. Dufty Lady sings Blues xix. 176 I was so happy I cried. People like Lena took the sting out of other little people. 1977 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 125 464/1 This defence consists in establishing..that the derogatory words—or at least their sting—were true. < as lemmas |
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