| 单词 | to smite dead |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto smite (a person or animal) dead b. to smite (a person or animal) dead: to kill (a person or animal). ΚΠ a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) v. ix. l. 91 In the skyis [he] smait hir ded. 1652 in J. Raymond Making News (1993) iv. 187 The blow was admirable, and the providence wonderfull; for some had no harm at all while others were smitten dead that touched them. 1708 J. Woodward Greivous Scandal Prophane Lang. (ed. 2) 13 It would have been better for you, that God should have smitten you dead on the spot. 1832 Penny Mag. 15 Sept. 235/2 In glided the snake... I stood prepared and instantly smote him dead. 1905 B. Burleigh Empire of East xviii. 273 When the first glinting white-steel frost comes careering down from Siberia, these venomous, countless myriads [of flies] are smitten dead. 1999 Hobart Mercury (Nexis) 6 Feb. Cloisters of learning, inhabited by clever dicks who will smite you dead if you split an infinitive. < as lemmas |
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