| 单词 | to beat anything |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto beat anything a. transitive. To overcome, to conquer in battle, or (in modern use) in any other contest, at doing anything; to show oneself superior to, to surpass, excel. to beat all, to beat anything, to beat everything, etc., has been common in the U.S. since the second quarter of the 19th cent. (A natural extension of 4: cf. similar use of thrash, drub, lick, etc. The earlier examples show the transition. In the colloquial to beat one hollow, to beat to sticks, to beat to ribands, etc., there is a play upon other senses of beat.) ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > victory > make victorious [verb (transitive)] > conquer or overcome overcomeeOE shendc893 awinc1000 overwinOE overheaveOE to lay downa1225 mate?c1225 discomfitc1230 win1297 dauntc1300 cumber1303 scomfit1303 fenkc1320 to bear downc1330 confoundc1330 confusec1330 to do, put arrear1330 oversetc1330 vanquishc1330 conquerc1374 overthrowc1375 oppressc1380 outfighta1382 to put downa1382 discomfortc1384 threshc1384 vencuea1400 depressc1400 venque?1402 ding?a1425 cumrayc1425 to put to (also at, unto) the (also one's) worsec1425 to bring or put to (or unto) utterance1430 distrussc1430 supprisec1440 ascomfita1450 to do stress?c1450 victorya1470 to make (win) a conquest1477 convanquish1483 conquest1485 defeat1485 oversailc1485 conques1488 discomfish1488 fulyie1488 distress1489 overpress1489 cravent1490 utter?1533 to give (a person) the overthrow1536 debel1542 convince1548 foil1548 out-war1548 profligate1548 proflige?c1550 expugnate1568 expugn1570 victor1576 dismay1596 damnify1598 triumph1605 convict1607 overman1609 thrash1609 beat1611 debellate1611 import1624 to cut to (or in) pieces1632 maitrise1636 worst1636 forcea1641 outfight1650 outgeneral1767 to cut up1803 smash1813 slosh1890 ream1918 hammer1948 the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (transitive)] > surpass or beat whip1571 overmaster1627 to give (one) fifteen and a bisque1664 to beat (all) to nothing1768 beatc1800 bang1808 to beat (also knock) all to sticks1820 floga1841 to beat (a person, a thing) into fits1841 to beat a person at his (also her, etc.) own game1849 to knock (the) spots off1850 lick1890 biff1895 to give a stone and a beating to1906 to knock into a cocked hat1965 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat shendc893 overwinOE overheaveOE mate?c1225 to say checkmatea1346 vanquishc1366 stightlea1375 outrayc1390 to put undera1393 forbeat1393 to shave (a person's) beardc1412 to put to (also at, unto) the (also one's) worsec1425 adawc1440 supprisec1440 to knock downc1450 to put to the worsta1475 waurc1475 convanquish1483 to put out1485 trima1529 convince1548 foil1548 whip1571 evict1596 superate1598 reduce1605 convict1607 defail1608 cast1610 banga1616 evince1620 worst1646 conquer1655 cuffa1657 trounce1657 to ride down1670 outdo1677 routa1704 lurcha1716 fling1790 bowl1793 lick1800 beat1801 mill1810 to row (someone) up Salt River1828 defeat1830 sack1830 skunk1832 whop1836 pip1838 throw1850 to clean out1858 take1864 wallop1865 to sock it to1877 whack1877 to clean up1888 to beat out1893 to see off1919 to lower the boom on1920 tonk1926 clobber1944 ace1950 to run into the ground1955 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > be a matter of wonder [verb (intransitive)] musea1500 to beggar description, comparea1616 to beat the Dutch1775 to beat all1839 c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1714) 23 The Scotts and the Pyctes, so bette and oppressyd this Lond. 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. lxii. 46 The whyte dragon strongly fought with the reed dragon and bote hym euel and hym ouercome.] 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Kings xiii. 25 Three times did Ioash beat [1382 Wyclif smoot; Coverd. did smyte] him, and recouered the cities of Israel. View more context for this quotation 1634 Malory's Arthur (1816) I. 424 They came home all five well beaten. 1664 S. Pepys Diary 22 Dec. (1971) V. 352 I hear fully the news of our being beaten to dirt at Guiny by De Ruyter. 1704 Hymn to Vict. lxvi. 12 Never was braver Army better Beat. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 180. ⁋13 He had beat the Romans in a pitched battle. 1778 E. Burke Corr. (1844) II. 213 We were beat about the light-house. c1800 R. Southey Devil's Walk xxii This Scotch phenomenon, I trow, Beats Alexander hollow. 1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 113 Favourite had been beat..by Sawney. 1812 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 177 How many children have you? You beat me, I expect, in that count. 1818 T. Moore Fudge Family in Paris iii The old Café Hardy..Beats the field at a dejeuner à la fourchette. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto VII xlii. 86 Few are slow In thinking that their enemy is beat, (Or beaten, if you insist on grammar). 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xii. 309 The ministers were constantly beaten in the house of lords. 1839 C. Brontë Let. 4 Aug. in E. C. Gaskell Life C. Brontë (1857) I. viii. 199 Well! thought I, I have heard of love at first sight, but this beats all! 1840 R. H. Barham Lay St. Odille in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 251 Many ladies..were beat all to sticks by the lovely Odille. 1863 C. Dickens Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings i, in All Year Round (Extra Christmas No.) 3 Dec. 7/2 ‘Well!’ I says, ‘if this don't beat everything!’ 1871 G. J. Whyte-Melville Kate Coventry (new ed.) 1 I rode a race against Bob Dashwood..and beat him all to ribands. 1872 E. A. Freeman Gen. Sketch European Hist. (1874) xiv. §11. 295 He first beat the Danes, and then the Russians. 1879 J. R. Lowell Poet. Wks. 418 And there's where I shall beat them hollow. < as lemmas |
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