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单词 lose one's breath
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to lose (one's) breath
b. The power or ability to be able to breathe well or easily; free or easy breathing. Frequently in expressions relating to losing or regaining the ability to breathe easily, as in to lose (one's) breath, to get one's breath (back), etc.See also in breath, out of breath at Phrases 6, to catch one's breath at catch v. Phrases 4a.
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the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > [noun] > power of
windc1330
breatha1450
breathing1580
a1450 Bk. Hawking (Rawl.) f. 315v, in Middle Eng. Dict. at Tene An hawke þat trauelyth vp on þe tayn..wyll pant more for on batyng þan an oþer doth for iiij, & yf she sholde flee a lytill whyle almost she wolde lose hir breþe.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. ii. 218 The King shall drinke to Hamlets better breath . View more context for this quotation
1788 Lady's Mag. Jan. 46/1 Aghast Elflida..scarce kept breath.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 10 Two dogs..Unmatched for courage, breath, and speed.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Elaine in Idylls of King 169 At last he got his breath and answer'd.
1906 Clinical Jrnl. 14 Feb. 282/1 He came in on August 13th..with a history of having been lately short of breath.
2019 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 2 June (Rally section) d9 My heart dropped. I lost my breath for a second.
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to lose one's breath
b. with object a limb, a faculty, one's life, etc. to lose one's head: see head n.1 Phrases 4j. to lose heart: to become discouraged. to lose one's heart: see heart n. 10a. †to lose one's breath: to die. to lose one's legs (slang): to get drunk. to lose one's nerve (nerve n. 14): to become scared, uneasy. to lose sleep over (or about, for), etc., something): to worry about (something) (usually in negative contexts).
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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
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > despair [verb (intransitive)] > lose heart
to lose heart1544
despond1655
to lose heart1741
demoralize1838
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > get drunk
drunkenc1000
to wash one's face in an ale clout1550
to shoe the goose, gosling1566
to catch, hunt the fox1599
to swallow a tavern-token1601
to read Geneva print1608
to whip the cat1622
inebriate1626
to hunt a tavern-fox1635
fox1649
mug1653
to fuddle one's cap or nose1663
to lose one's legs1770
gin1789
stone1858
to beer up1884
slop1899
to get, have, tie a bun on1901
shicker1906
souse1921
lush1926
to cop a reeler1937
to tie one on1951
the mind > emotion > fear > nervousness or uneasiness > be nervous or uneasy [verb (intransitive)] > lose one's nerve
to lose one's nerve1912
bug1952
to lose one's bottle1958
bottle1977
to bottle it1988
the mind > emotion > fear > nervousness or uneasiness > be nervous or uneasy (about) [verb (transitive)] > worry about something
to lose sleep over (or about, for)1942
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12935 Hire lif heo losede sone.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 586 If he has losed the lysten.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 143 Sir Arthure loste so muche bloode that hit was mervayle he stoode on his feete.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1879) VII. 315 Makynge a statute that whosoever toke a beste þer scholde lose oon eie.
15.. in Lett. Royal & Illustrious Ladies (1846) II. 4 She was like to have lost her mind.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 429/2 I am spechelesse, as a sycke body is that hath lost the use of his speche.
1596 B. Griffin Fidessa vi. sig. B3v Oh better were I loose ten thousand breaths, Then euer liue in such vnseene disgrace.
1597 F. Bacon Of Coulers Good & Euill (Arb.) 152 As to a monoculos it is more to loose one eye, then to a man that hath two eyes.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 914 Though sight be lost, Life yet hath many solaces. View more context for this quotation
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 60. ¶4 In a little Time after he lost his Senses.
1741 J. Ozell tr. P. de B. de Brantôme Spanish Rhodomontades 186 As soon as They were dead, every one lost Heart, having lost their Chief Supports.
1749 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. II 46 A religious Nun devoted to St. Xavier, famed for Skill in Music and a fine Voice, had her Voice lost by a Hoarsness for ten Years.
1770 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 560 To express the Condition of an Honest Fellow and no Flincher under the Effects of Good Fellowship, he is said to..[have] Lost his legs.
1804 G. Rose Diaries (1860) II. 193 She..rode to Southampton, where she lost some blood.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxvii. 117 She acquired an influence over the mind of the destitute child that she never lost.
1912 Chambers's Jrnl. Nov. 739/1 There's nothing here to lose one's nerve about.
1934 G. B. Shaw Too True to be Good iii. 86 When I was wounded and lost my nerve for flying, I became an army chaplain.
1942 H. C. Bailey Dead Man's Shoes iv. 19 ‘I'd like to know why you didn't tell me.’ ‘You told me not to lose any sleep over it.’
1944 ‘N. Shute’ Pastoral ii. 41 ‘I wasn't losing any sleep for them.’.. ‘Those two have been at this for years.’
1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 241 It's not the sort of thing I lose sleep over.
1959 M. Pugh Chancer vii. 91 As two-faced as a cod, a proper chancer. He was a born assassin who lost his nerve.
1967 J. Porter Dover & Unkindest Cut x. 109 Dover hadn't lost any sleep over them... ‘You can't win 'em all,’ he used to say.
1971 Guardian 10 July 9/1 Stolid and conservative Midwesterners..never lost much sleep over the Negroes' troubles.
1974 Guardian 18 Mar. 6/5 Although increasing restrictions on immigration..had been criticised..it is doubtful whether the immigrants themselves have lost much sleep over them.
1975 Times 24 Feb. 14/7 You just have to get straight back on, or else you lose your nerve. The others are far more concerned with the loose horse than the girl lying face down in the dirt.
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