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单词 launch into eternity
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to launch into eternity
c. figurative. To start (a person) in, into, or on a business, career, etc.; to set on foot (a project); to commence (an action). Also with out. to launch into eternity: rhetorically for ‘to put to death’.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)] > cause (a person) to begin to do something
launch1602
start1757
to set on1823
to start off1844
to set off1863
the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]
forsweltc888
sweltc888
adeadeOE
deadc950
wendeOE
i-wite971
starveOE
witea1000
forfereOE
forthfareOE
forworthc1000
to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE
queleOE
fallOE
to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE
to shed (one's own) blood?a1100
diec1135
endc1175
farec1175
to give up the ghostc1175
letc1200
aswelta1250
leavea1250
to-sweltc1275
to-worthc1275
to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290
finea1300
spilla1300
part?1316
to leese one's life-daysa1325
to nim the way of deathc1325
to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330
flit1340
trance1340
determinec1374
disperisha1382
to go the way of all the eartha1382
to be gathered to one's fathers1382
miscarryc1387
shut1390
goa1393
to die upa1400
expirea1400
fleea1400
to pass awaya1400
to seek out of lifea1400–50
to sye hethena1400
tinea1400
trespass14..
espirec1430
to end one's days?a1439
decease1439
to go away?a1450
ungoc1450
unlivec1450
to change one's lifea1470
vade1495
depart1501
to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513
to decease this world1515
to go over?1520
jet1530
vade1530
to go westa1532
to pick over the perch1532
galpa1535
to die the death1535
to depart to God1548
to go home1561
mort1568
inlaikc1575
shuffle1576
finish1578
to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
relent1587
unbreathe1589
transpass1592
to lose one's breath1596
to make a die (of it)1611
to go offa1616
fail1623
to go out1635
to peak over the percha1641
exita1652
drop1654
to knock offa1657
to kick upa1658
to pay nature her due1657
ghost1666
to march off1693
to die off1697
pike1697
to drop off1699
tip (over) the perch1699
to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703
sink1718
vent1718
to launch into eternity1719
to join the majority1721
demise1727
to pack off1735
to slip one's cable1751
turf1763
to move off1764
to pop off the hooks1764
to hop off1797
to pass on1805
to go to glory1814
sough1816
to hand in one's accounts1817
to slip one's breatha1819
croak1819
to slip one's wind1819
stiffen1820
weed1824
buy1825
to drop short1826
to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839
to get one's (also the) call1839
to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840
to unreeve one's lifeline1840
to step out1844
to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845
to hand in one's checks1845
to go off the handle1848
to go under1848
succumb1849
to turn one's toes up1851
to peg out1852
walk1858
snuff1864
to go or be up the flume1865
to pass outc1867
to cash in one's chips1870
to go (also pass over) to the majority1883
to cash in1884
to cop it1884
snuff1885
to belly up1886
perch1886
to kick the bucket1889
off1890
to knock over1892
to pass over1897
to stop one1901
to pass in1904
to hand in one's marble1911
the silver cord is loosed1911
pip1913
to cross over1915
conk1917
to check out1921
to kick off1921
to pack up1925
to step off1926
to take the ferry1928
peg1931
to meet one's Maker1933
to kiss off1935
to crease it1959
zonk1968
cark1977
to cark it1979
to take a dirt nap1981
1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iv. sig. Gv Was neuer Prince..With louder shouts of tryumph launched out Into the surgy maine of gouernment.
1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 217 Being lanched again into the gulf of misery. View more context for this quotation
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 108. ¶7 We find several Citizens that were lanched into the World with narrow Fortunes.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 298 I am now launch'd quite beside my Design.
1802 Med. Jrnl. viii. 275 The mention of this term serves to launch the author into a digression.
1812 Examiner 30 Nov. 768/1 The platform, from whence he was to be launched into eternity.
1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville I. 43 The worthy captain,..fairly launched on the broad prairies, with his face to the boundless west.
1840 W. Irving Ralph Ringwood in Knickerbocker Mag. Sept. 263 It was agreed that..as soon as I should be fairly launched in business, we would be married.
1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. vi. 104 The pretty youngster..was well launched in Bardo's favourable regard.
1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 275 The Mississippi scheme launched by John Law.
1884 H. B. Buckley in Law Times Rep. 22 Mar. 115/1 The plaintiff himself has launched this action in the Chancery Division.
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to launch into eternity
6. To push forth, out from land, put to sea, advance seawards; literal and figurative. to launch into eternity: rhetorically for ‘to die’.
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society > travel > travel by water > [verb (intransitive)] > set out on a voyage
to go to seac900
to take the seac1275
to go or fere to (the) saila1375
sail1387
to make saila1500
to set sail1513
lance1526
launch1534
to put off1582
to put out?1587
to put forth1604
to come to sail1633
underweigh1891
to take sail1904
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (reflexive)] > move impetuously
throwc1330
launch1534
hurlc1540
shoot1577
run1605
fling1700
1534 Bible (Tyndale rev. Joye) Luke v. 4 He sayde vnto Simon: Launche out in to the depe.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. i. f. 55v He lanched from that lande, and directed his course to Vraba.
1600 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. (rev. ed.) f. 50 v The Thames..That daunc'd with my Barge in launching from the stayre.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies i. xviii. 60 I doe not finde in ancient bookes, that they have lanched farre into the Ocean.
a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 385 What need I lanch forth into this forrain deep?
1676 J. Dryden Aureng-Zebe ii. 25 Lanching out into a Sea of strife.
1720 D. Manley Power of Love i. 123 He was afraid his Soul should launch into Eternity without a Guide to direct his Penitence.
1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. ii. 23 The time of my servitude [has] expir'd, and I am launch'd forth into the great ocean of business.
1766 D. Hume Let. 20 Nov. (1932) II. 111 I find I am launching out insensibly into an immense ocean of commonplace.
1769 E. Burke Observ. Late State Nation 73 We must have launched into a new sea, I fear a boundless sea, of expence.
1773 S. Johnson Let. 21 Sept. (1992) II. 77 We launched into one of the straits of the Atlantick Ocean.
1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) II. xii. 107 Before any Greek navigator ventured..to launch out beyond Sicily.
1875 H. W. Longfellow Pandora ii Forth I launch On the sustaining air.
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