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单词 worsting
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ˈworsting
ˈworsting n.
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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > defeat or overthrow > [noun]
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confusionc1290
discomfiturea1400
castc1400
overthrowc1440
confoundinga1450
jeofail1546
prostitution1567
lurch1584
worsting1607
unhorsing1608
supplantation1617
defeat1676
overset1789
punishment1811
overthrowal1862
beating1883
unhorsement1884
whoop-ass1974
1607 R. Parker Scholasticall Disc. against Antichrist i. i. 18 Neither the triumph of the Papist, nor the worsting of the Protestant..can cause it to vanish away from thence.
1750 F. Bellers Delineation Universal Law ii. iv. 22 As all Things necessary for Life are capable of being wasted or worsted..; if the Consequence of such wasting or worsting..did not, by the Laws of Property, light on the Persons who were the respective Causes of them, the whole Burden of human Life would fall on the few Frugal and Industrious.
1842 J. H. Newman Church of Fathers (ed. 2) 60 We might have conquered by a worsting which was honourable and dignified.
1883 R. Broughton Belinda I. i. ix. 159 The dispute ends in the worsting of the person to whom alone it is of any consequence to succeed.
2001 Victorian Stud. 43 632 His worsting by Lord Palmerston and eclipse by William Ewart Gladstone in the leadership of Liberalism.
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