单词 | to suck the blood of |
释义 | > as lemmasto suck the blood of c. to suck the blood of (fig.): to exhaust the resources of, drain the life out of. (Cf. bloodsuck v.) ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > use up, expend, or consume [verb (transitive)] > consume all that is profitable in to suck the eggs of1576 to suck the blood of1583 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. B6v He meaneth to sucke thy bloud. 1584 R. Greene Myrrour of Modestie sig. Aviv These two cursed caitifes..concluded when they might finde hir alone, to sucke the bloude of this innocent lambe. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 49 The Lieutenant, cruelly to sucke their blood, and the Procuratour as greedy to preie upon their substance. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. viii. 142 The wealth he had acquired by sucking the blood of his miserable victims had but swelled him like a bottled spider. < as lemmas |
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