| 单词 | to throw overboard |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto throw (also cast, fling, etc.) overboard a. to throw (also cast, fling, etc.) overboard: to cast aside, discard, reject, renounce. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (transitive)] > abandon, renounce, or refuse to acknowledge shrivec1374 disavowc1400 reject1426 renouncec1450 disvow1502 disavouch1583 disclaim1585 to throw (also cast, fling, etc.) overboard1588 disacknowledge1598 forjure1601 disknow1606 disvoucha1616 to swear off1839 to throw down1895 to go into the discard1898 ditch1921 cancel1990 1588 W. Byrd Songbooks xxviii. 2 Our passions be the Pirates still that spoyle, and ouerboard cast's out our reasons fraight. 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper iii. 193 That Religion which is more turbulent, seditious, and stormy, let it be throwne over-board to lighten the ship of the Church. 1679 Established Test 9 They threw over-board all their Loyalty. 1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) iv. 95 The Princess Governante is not well liked... I suppose that the Statholder will be thrown overboard sometime or other to lay a storm. 1831 C. Lamb in Englishman's Mag. Aug. 555 The judge's ermine; the coxcomb wig; the snuff-box à la Foppington—all must overboard. 1876 H. James Roderick Hudson i. 30 We had only..to fling Imitation overboard and fix our eyes upon our National Individuality. 1922 V. Woolf Jacob's Room iv. 76 Shakespeare was knocked overboard..with all his pages ruffling. 1956 N. Pevsner Englishness of Eng. Art iii. 61 In the architecture of about 1900 there is in England the fresh yet friendly and human style of Voysey, not the whole-hog throwing overboard of all traditions. 1993 M. Atwood Robber Bride xliv. 343 She had dumped her excess Jewishness overboard, along with her excess Catholicism. < as lemmas |
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