单词 | to smite to the ground |
释义 | > as lemmasto smite (a person or thing) to the ground (also earth, floor) P3. to smite (a person or thing) to the ground (also earth, floor): to knock or strike (a person or thing) to the ground (also with object implied). Also figurative: to destroy. Cf. to smite down 1 at Phrasal verbs. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > bring to the ground/lay low > knock down to smite (a person or thing) to the groundc1250 weve13.. pallc1390 to knock downc1450 nolpc1540 call1729 c1250 in Englische Studien (1935) 70 234 (MED) Wid one asse chehec bone he smet hine to grunde. c1300 (?c1225) King Horn (Cambr.) (1901) l. 639 Hi gonne me assaille,..Ismot hem alle to grunde. c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 550 (MED) By þre, by foure, myd þe tayle To þe grounde he smoot. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xii. l. 172 To ground he smat him quhar he stud. ?1533 W. Tyndale Expos. Mathew v. f. li If he wyl not yelde in the kynges name, thou must laye on and smyte hym to grounde tyll he be subdued. 1650 Mercurius Pragmaticus (for King Charls II) No. 44. sig. Xx He can at pleasure smite them to the earth, and lay all their accumulated mountains of self promised happinesse levell with the lowest ditches of misery. 1782 H. More David & Goliath iii. in Sacred Dramas 91 The famish'd lion by his griesly beard, Enrag'd, I caught, and smote him to the ground. 1834 S. L. Knapp Tales of Garden of Kosciuszko 198 No man is always a brute; and he did not smite her to the floor. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xviii. 249 The last hopes of the House of Godwine had been smitten to the ground. 1908 A. Lang Maid of France xiv. 158 She was smitten to the earth, but sprang up crying, ‘Amis, amis, sus, sus!’ 1948 W. S. Churchill Second World War I. ii. 28 The means of exchange of goods and services between man and man was smitten to the ground. < as lemmas |
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