| 单词 | fret the heart |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfret the heart b. figurative. Chiefly of the passions, etc.: To ‘devour’, ‘consume’, torment; cf. eat v. 10c. Also, to fret oneself. Obsolete except in fret the heart, in which use this sense is now hardly distinguishable from 8. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > cause anguish to or torment [verb (transitive)] quelmeOE eatc1000 martyrOE fretc1175 woundc1175 to-fret?c1225 gnawc1230 to-traya1250 torment1297 renda1333 anguish1340 grindc1350 wringc1374 debreakc1384 ofpinec1390 rivea1400 urn1488 reboil1528 whip1530 cruciate1532 pinch1548 spur-galla1555 agonize1570 rack1576 cut1582 excruciate1590 scorchc1595 discruciate1596 butcher1597 split1597 torture1598 lacerate1600 harrow1603 hell1614 to eat upa1616 arrow1628 martyrize1652 percruciate1656 tear1666 crucify1702 flay1782 wrench1798 kill1800 to cut up1843 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 16133 Hat lufe towarrd godess hus Me freteþþ att min herrte. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 98 Full of..wrathfull thought He fret him selven all to nought. 1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) iv. i. 101 a This Manlius was fret in his corage To greater worships sodainly to ascende. c1450 How Goode Wif thaught Doughter 80 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 185 Envyouse herte hym selfe fretithe, my dere childe. a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) iv. sig. Divv Dido doth burne with loue, rage fretes her boones. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. (1609) ix. xiv. 322 Their hearts alreadie fretted and cankered at the very roote, for the last disgrace received. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 260. ⁋1 A crafty Constitution, and an uneasy Mind is fretted with vexatious Passions. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. xliii. 222 It did teaze me; insomuch that my very heart was fretted. 1850 J. G. Saxe Poems 27 The very sigh That her stately bosom was fretting. 1856 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 10 May in Eng. Notebks. (1997) II. iv. 26 So many curiosities drive one crazy, and fret one's heart to death. < as lemmas |
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