单词 | to think away |
释义 | > as lemmasto think away to think away 1. transitive. To remove by exercising the mind; consciously to ignore, imagine the non-existence of. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > ignore, disregard [verb (transitive)] > dismiss from consideration to put out of ——a1250 to lay awaya1400 to set asidec1407 to lay by1439 to lay asidec1440 to let (something) walkc1450 to set apart?1473 reject1490 seclude?1531 to let go1535 to put offc1540 to set by1592 sepose1593 to think away1620 to look over ——a1640 prescind1650 seposit1657 decognize1659 inconsider1697 to set over1701 shelf1819 sink1820 shelve1847 eliminate1848 to count out1854 discounta1856 defenestrate1917 neg1987 1620 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Phylaster ii. 21 If it bee loue to sit crosse armde, and thinke away the day. a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Beggers Bush v. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Mm3 O I am miserably lost; thus fallen Into my Uncles hands, from all my hopes..: Can I not thinke away my selfe and dye? 1849 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 16 376/2 He thinks away every proposition he has been taught to believe. 1880 J. Caird in W. James Varieties Relig. Experience (1902) xviii. 451 But that which I cannot think away is thought or self-consciousness itself. a1910 W. V. Moody Poems & Plays (1912) 79 I left Raphael Just to come drink these eyes of hers, To think away the stains and blurs And make all new again and well. 1982 R. Kahn Seventh Game i. 4 It was time to think away the pain and play the head game. 2001 Church Times 12 Apr. 32/5 Think away the putti buzzing beside it, and the general furnishing of its aedicule... See the Volto Santo if you dare. 2. transitive. To pass or while away in contemplation; to make (time) pass more quickly by thinking about something. Now rare. ΚΠ a1711 J. Norris in Rev. Eng. Stud. (1983) 34 469 Here in this shady lonely grove, I sweetly think my hours away. 1864 F. W. Robinson Mattie III. v. 70 He tried to think the time away by dwelling upon that business in which he intended to embark. 2006 B. L. Worral PodBrandy 20 You remember staring at her..Half-thinking the minutes away With What happened to her?] < as lemmas |
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