单词 | to blow to or into atoms |
释义 | > as lemmasto blow (shiver, smash, tear, etc.) to or into atoms to blow (shiver, smash, tear, etc.) to or into atoms: to smash, break, etc., into tiny pieces; to reduce to the smallest particles. Cf. smithereens n. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > break to pieces, shatter, or burst to-breakc888 briteOE to-shenec950 abreakOE forgnidea1000 to-brytc1000 to-burstc1000 to-driveOE shiverc1200 to-shiverc1200 to-reavec1225 shiverc1250 debruise1297 to-crack13.. to-frushc1300 to-sliftc1315 chinec1330 littlec1350 dingc1380 bruisea1382 burst1382 rushc1390 shinderc1390 spald?a1400 brittenc1400 pashc1400 forbruise1413 to break, etc. into sherds1426 shattera1450 truncheon1477 scarboyle1502 shonk1508 to-shattera1513 rash1513 shidera1529 grind1535 infringe1543 dishiver1562 rupture1578 splinter1582 tear1582 disshiver1596 upburst1596 to burst up1601 diminish1607 confract1609 to blow (shiver, smash, tear, etc.) to or into atoms1612 dishatter1615 vanquashc1626 beshiver1647 disfrange1778 smash1778 explode1784 bust1806 spell1811 smithereen1878 shard1900 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > break to pieces, shatter, or burst > blow up or explode to blow away1523 blow1599 to blow (shiver, smash, tear, etc.) to or into atoms1612 blast1758 to blow sky-high1823 dynamite1881 lyddite1906 1612 G. Chapman Widdowes Teares v. sig. I4v O I could teare my selfe into Atomes. 1664 H. More Apol. in Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 495 They would nimbly take a-pieces and consume to Atomes any such Terrestrial consistency of flesh and bloud. 1680 T. Otway Orphan v. 64 If but your word can shake This world to Atomes. 1765 W. Shirley Electra iii. ii. 48 From your hands the vengeful bolts are hurl'd That shall to atoms shake this solid earth. 1793 R. Burns Let. ?Mar. (1985) II. 190 If you send me a page baptised in the font of sanctimonious Prudence—By Heaven, Earth & Hell, I will tear it into atoms! 1851 G. H. Kingsley in Fraser's Mag. Aug. 145/2 The bottle is smashed!—smashed to atoms! 1875 A. Helps Social Pressure iii. 51 Which should shiver into atoms some of our present most potent ideas. 1898 Argosy Nov. 761 The prospect of sailing out with him, and being blown to atoms by the guns of our own fleet. 1905 A. Conan Doyle Return Sherlock Holmes 226 His second bust..had been smashed to atoms where it stood. 1950 I. Asimov Pebble in Sky xvii. 179 It was a full-size blaster that could shred a man to atoms. 2006 Independent (Nexis) 24 Nov. 32 Nayla Moawad, whose president-husband, Rene, was blown to atoms by a bomb in November of 1989. < as lemmas |
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