单词 | beat down |
释义 | > as lemmasto beat down to beat down Thesaurus » 1. To force or drive downward by beating or hammering (cf. 15). Thesaurus » 2. To batter or break down by heavy blows, to demolish, knock down (cf. 17). Thesaurus » 3. figurative. To overthrow (an institution, opinion, etc.). Thesaurus » Categories » 4. To force down (a price) by haggling (cf. 18). With these cf. abate n. Thesaurus » 5. intransitive. To come down with violence, like rain blown by the wind, the sun's rays, etc. (cf. 6). 6. (see 19). 7. To reduce by beating (cf. 22). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > beat down or away to beat downc1540 bate1601 c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 180 The knightes..Brentyn and betyn doun all the big houses. 1544 Letanie in Exhort. vnto Prayer sig. Bviii And fynally to beate downe Satan vnder our fete. 1547 Certain Serm. or Homilies Salvation, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) i. 30 This doctrine..beateth down the vain glory of man. 1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. ii. xii. 50 Fightes he to beate downe the Gates. 1602 W. Fulbecke Pandectes 28 Democracie hath beene bette doune, and Monarchie established. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 63 The enemie with great slaughter still beaten downe. 1667 S. Pepys Diary 8 Nov. (1974) VIII. 522 To alter my office by beating down the wall and making me a fayre window..there. 1793 J. Bentham Wks. (1843) IV. 413 Thus monopoly will beat down prices. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1871) II. xvii. 280 One whole side of the castle had been beaten down. 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. Explan. Terms 107 For the purpose of keeping the sea from beating down. 1860 ‘G. Eliot’ in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) II. xi. 273 The fields that were so sadly beaten down a little while ago are now standing in fine yellow shocks. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §16. 113 The sun..beat down upon us with intense force. to beat down a. transitive. To force or impel (a thing) by striking, hammering, etc. With the direction expressed, as to beat down, to beat out of, or to beat into (a position or thing). ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iii. vii. 110 He gaue me a Iewell th' other day, and now hee has beate it out of my hat. View more context for this quotation 1659 R. Boyle Some Motives & Incentives to Love of God xvi. 100 When we beat the dust out of a suite. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 52 The Blow..beat the Breath as it were quite out of my Body. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §238 The stone..was then lowered..and beat down with a heavy wooden maul. beat down ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > bargaining > bargain [verb (intransitive)] bargain1525 hucka1529 hucker1548 dodge1568 blockc1570 pelt1579 hack1587 haggle1589 to beat the bargain1591 to beat the market1591 huckster1593 niffera1598 badger1600 scotch1601 palter1611 cheapen1620 higgle1633 tig-tag1643 huckle1644 chaffer1693 chaffer1725 dicker1797 niffer1815 Jew1825 hacker1833 banter1835 higgle-haggle1841 hondle1921 wheel and deal1961 society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [verb (intransitive)] to beat the price1591 society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [verb (transitive)] > lower (price) weaken1530 mitigate1542 abase1551 fall1564 to beat the price1591 to bring down1600 to fetch down1841 degrade1844 to roll back1942 society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [verb (transitive)] > lower (price) > cause to decline to beat the price1591 to run down1699 1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching sig. A3 He bet the prise of him, bargained, & bought him. 1630 H. Lord Display Two Forraigne Sects 84 The broaker that beateth the price with him that selleth. 1632 F. Quarles Divine Fancies (1660) i. lxix. 29 How loth was righteous Abraham to cease, To Beat the price of lustful Sodoms peace! 1640 W. Habington Hist. Edward IV 135 To beate the bargaine of peace to a lower rate. 1662 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 3rd Pt. 636 How low did Abraham beat the Market for Sodoms preservation? 1667 S. Pepys Diary 14 Aug. (1974) VIII. 385 With a little beating the bargain, we came to a perfect agreement. 1785 C. Burney in S. Parr Wks. VII. 398 I have been beating the market for them. < as lemmas |
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