| 单词 | to throw down one's arms |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto throw down one's arms (also weapons, etc.) (b) to throw down one's arms (also weapons, etc.): to stop fighting; to surrender. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defeat > be defeated [verb (intransitive)] > surrender to cry (or say) creanta1250 to yield oneself creanta1250 to do (also put) oneself in (also to) a person's mercya1325 yieldc1330 recray1340 summisec1450 render1523 amain1540 surrender1560 to throw down one's arms (also weapons, etc.)1593 articulate1595 to yield (also bow oneself) to (also upon) mercy1595 to give grass1597 capitulate1601 to cry cravena1634 to lower or strike one's flag1644 bail1840 hands-up1879 kamerad1914 1593 M. Sutcliffe Pract., Proc., & Lawes of Armes xxi. 323 Appius Claudius did behead those soldiers, that throwing downe their armes fledde from the enemie. 1642 Kings Maiesties Demands & Propositions to Lords of Staffs. 5 They humbly desired his Maiestie to throw down his Armes. 1700 S. L. tr. C. Frick Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 58 Most of them threw down their Arms. 1836 New-Yorker 6 Aug. 313/1 The savages have thrown down their weapons, desisted from the hopeless struggle, and abandoned all hope. 1849 Spirit of Age 25 Aug. 126/1 We do not throw down our arms. We will fight the armies of the allied tyrants of Europe. 1961 Spectator 29 Sept. 414/1 Without the smallest attempt at making a fight of it he threw down his arms.., pretending that the amendment meant something that it clearly did not mean. 1961 Irish Times 20 Oct. 6/6 Attempts to persuade the men to throw down their guns had failed. 2009 N.Y. Times 7 May a6/4 The insurgents are throwing down their arms and..were joining Iraqi security forces. < as lemmas |
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