单词 | melt away |
释义 | > as lemmasto melt away to melt away 1. intransitive. To become liquefied; to disappear or be destroyed by liquefaction. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > action or process of melting > melt [verb (intransitive)] > away formeltc893 to melt awayc1300 deliquesce1815 c1300 St. Christopher (Laud) 200 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 277 (MED) As wex þat gredile malt a-wei. 1685 W. Clark Grand Tryal ii. x. 61 A Body which of late, In health, and vigour, fully animate..Has now no figure, but doth every day Like Wax before the Candle, melt away. 1754 G. Jeffreys Misc. 31 Yet all its snow will melt away, When Zephir's genial gales return. 1785 T. Holcroft tr. P. A. C. de Beaumarchais Follies of Day iii. 53 Honor in a Woman's possession, like Ice Cream in the mouth, melts away. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxiii. 166 I could see the wafted snow gradually melt away. 1942 E. Waugh Put out More Flags ii. 149 The frost broke; the snow melted away. 2. transitive. To remove, destroy, or cause to disappear by liquefaction. Also figurative. ΚΠ c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame 1149 Thoo gan I in myn herte caste That they were molte awey with hete, And not awey with stormes bete. c1480 (a1400) St. Justina 394 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 163 He sonnere but delay meltit þane wax in fyre away. 1631 T. Dekker Match mee in London ii. 15 What will your worship giue me, if I melt away all that sow of lead that lyes heauy at your heart, by telling you where shee is. 1790 W. Blake Marriage Heaven & Hell Pl. 14 This I shall do, by printing in the infernal method, by corrosives,..melting apparent surfaces away. 1853 E. FitzGerald tr. P. Calderón de la Barca Beware of Smooth Water i. iii. 241 Especially a woman; most of all One not yet married; whose reputation One breath of scandal, like a flake of snow, May melt away. 1979 M. Cunningham & J. Laber Fannie Farmer Cookbk. (ed. 12) 120 This method of cooking will melt away the tiny bones [of shad]. to melt away ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rapture or ecstasy > be rapturous or ecstatic [verb (intransitive)] > go into ecstasies to melt awaya1400 ecstasy1636 rapturize1832 ecstasiate1838 ecstasize1854 rapture1908 to bliss out1973 a1400 (?a1325) Medit. on Supper of our Lord (Harl.) (1875) 1001 Now certes my soule ys melted awey. 1713 J. Addison Cato i. iv. 11 Alas, thy Story melts away my Soul. < as lemmas |
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