单词 | perished |
释义 | perishedadj. 1. Dead, esp. having suffered an untimely death; ruined, destroyed, laid waste. Also: lost, vanished. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [adjective] deadOE lifelessOE of lifeOE storvena1225 dead as a door-nail1362 ydead1387 stark deadc1390 colda1400 bypast1425 perishedc1440 morta1450 obita1450 unquickc1449 gone?a1475 dead and gone1482 extinct1483 departed1503 bygonea1522 amort1546 soulless1553 breathless1562 parted1562 mortified1592 low-laid1598 disanimate1601 carcasseda1603 defunct1603 no morea1616 with God1617 death-stricken1618 death-strucken1622 expired1631 past itc1635 incinerated1657 stock-dead1662 dead as a herring1664 death-struck1688 as dead as a nit1789 (as) dead as mutton1792 low1808 laid in the locker1815 strae-dead1820 disanimated1833 ghosted1834 under the daisies1842 irresuscitable1843 under the sod1847 toes up1851 dead and buried1863 devitalized1866 translated1869 dead and done (for, with)1886 daid1890 bung1893 (as) dead as the (or a) dodo1904 six feet under1942 brown bread1969 the world > life > death > manner of death > [adjective] > from cold or privation perishedc1440 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > destroyed forwroughta1325 lorna1400 destroyedc1440 perishedc1440 shentc1440 defeatc1540 spiltc1540 dissolved?1541 interempt1561 baned1568 mischievedc1570 defeated1578 ruined1585 downcast1592 gone1598 collapsed1610 to take up for hawks' meat1612 naughta1616 blasted1747 wreckeda1821 butchered1839 fucked-up1863 kaput1895 piled-up1906 shambled1940 c1440 S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (St. John's Cambr.) (1970) 54 Sche caste hir-silf in-to the see, and in taking the perisched [v.r. ded] bodi in here armys was drownyd. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Perditus.., loste, perysshed, withoute recouerie, out of hope. 1598 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1816) IV. 176/2 Ane greit part of the dround and perischit mynes..may be recouerit and wyn agane. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 219 Her brother Fredericke was wrackt at Sea, hauing in that perished vessell, the dowry of his sister. View more context for this quotation 1642 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (new ed.) 46 I..could with patience behold the urne and ashes of the Vatican, could I, with a few others, recover the perished leaves of Solomon. 1777 J. Throsby Mem. Town & County of Leicester I. i. 60 Coins of emperors..have been found among the ruins of that perished city. 1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose i, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. IV. 14 (note) I am the widow of a slain lord,—the mother of a perished child. 1894 F. Thompson Anthem of Earth (1946) 224 Perished cities whose great phantasmata O'erbrow the silent citizens of Dis. a1922 T. S. Eliot Waste Land Drafts (1971) 75 Over perished plains, stumbling in cracked earth. 2002 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 6 May a3 One of the ships from Halifax tasked with the gruesome detail of pulling perished souls from the icy Atlantic. 2. a. Of a material object or organic substance: decayed, rotted; damaged, in a poor physical state. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > decayed rottena1382 marcid?a1425 bada1450 decayed1528 carious1530 mouldy1576 perished1587 decrepit1594 moskered1612 marcidious1656 mortified1673 ampery1736 daddocky1790 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 1185/1 The spire of the steeple was so perished that not long after the same was taken downe. 1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 587 The leaues & root boyled in water and Hony, & drunke, healeth the perished lungs. 1685 London Gaz. No. 1998/4 A brown bay Mare above 14 hands high,..a little perisht in her Wind. 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xxi. 161 If any soft or perished Place appear on the Outside [of cheese], try how deep it goes. 1757 W. Thompson Royal Navy-men's Advocate 46 It is no longer a Wonder, such perished Stores should be bought up. 1839 J. G. Whittier Relic 24 Flower of a perished garland left, Of life and beauty unbereft! 1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. Pref. p. vii The epigene crystal, formed by materials of one substance modelled on the perished crystals of another. 1895 Times (Weekly ed.) 23 Aug. 675/4 The rope was perished and should never have been used for the work. 1914 Times 29 May 10/2 Evesham [strawberry] growers were largely occupied in cleaning out their perished crops. 1991 B. Leigh Catch of Hands 105 The house had a wan, perished look, as though it were up for auction. b. Of rubber or a similar material, or an article made from it: having lost its characteristic elasticity and become weak, sticky, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > rubber > [adjective] > types of rubber unsulphurized1846 vulcanizable1852 unvulcanizeda1884 perished1922 1922 H. P. Stevens in S. Morgan Prep. Plantation Rubber xxi. 306 After a time, vulcanised rubber tends to harden, cracks appear on the surface when the article is bent or stretched, and eventually the rubber becomes rotten and ‘perished’. 1950 J. Cannan Murder Included vii. 158 A perished washer might account for the dripping. 1965 D. Francis Odds Against xiii. 178 Weather forecasts are as reliable as a perished hot-water bottle. 1967 B. N. Leyland & J. T. Watts in J. A. Brydson Devel. with Nat. Rubber v. 67 Under the more severe running conditions.., casing compounds based conventionally on natural rubber would reach a perished condition in a relatively short time. 1996 Independent on Sunday 5 May (Review Suppl.) 63/1 There, the air smells of yachties—fibreglass resin, perished tarpaulins, spilt diesel. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.c1440 |
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