| 单词 | death blast |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdeath blast death blast n. (a) a destructive or deadly blast, as of a storm or wind, or an explosion; also figurative; (b) a blast of a horn, etc., announcing or presaging death. ΚΠ 1800 W. Dimond Petrarchal Sonnets 87 The death-blast swept the main, And smote with perishment the rose of health. 1820 W. Scott Abbot III. xi. 352 A bugle sounded loudly..‘It is the death-blast to Queen Mary's royalty,’ said Ambrosius. 1845 Southern & Western Mag. Aug. 264 The thought of his daughter, that she might be exposed to the awful fate, wrapped in those volumed flames, came over him like a death-blast. 1875 L. F. Tasistro tr. Comte de Paris Hist. Civil War Amer. I. 456 The storm which in consequence of its periodical return in the beginning of November, sailors call the death-blast. 1911 G. A. J. Cole Changeful Earth vii. 135 (heading) The death-blasts of St. Vincent and Martinique. 1921 D. N. Raymond Brit. Policy & Opinion during Franco-Prussian War xv. 318 He even whistled the Prussian hallali,—the hunter's death blast. 1930 F. L. Pattee New Amer. Lit. xv. 243 New York City is a sirocco, it is a death blast to the genius it imports; it withers everything it touches. 2000 G. Fraser Antimatter (2002) xiii. 182 A series of mirrors and lasing rods would have irrevocably pointed the X-ray death blasts towards their selected targets. < as lemmas |
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