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单词 to burn a country
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to burn a country
b. With metonymy of the object; to burn a country: i.e. to set fire to all objects on the surface of the ground. Obsolete. to burn the earth or wind: to go at full speed. U.S.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > move swiftly [verb (intransitive)] > go at full speed
to burn the earth or windc1275
streekc1380
career1647
streak1768
streak1834
score1858
to go eyes out1863
to go for the doctor1907
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > devastate or lay waste (a place, etc.) > by burning
to burn a countryc1275
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3060 Mine kene men..al þis lond bearneð [c1300 Otho for-beorneþ].
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 2646 Þei hadde luþerli here lond brend and destrued.
1470 J. Hardyng Chron. (1543) 165 Into Fiffes he went, and brent it clene.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur i. xiii They lete brenne and destroye alle the contrey afore them.
c1571 E. Campion Two Bks. Hist. Ireland (1963) ii. vii. 104 He spoyled Arthur Mac Murrowe, brent his countrye.
1881 G. W. Romspert Western Echo 164 The first day the mustangs will burn the prairie.]
1891 ‘O. Thanet’ Otto the Knight & Other Stories 219 An' we all ayfter 'im... Didn't he burn the wind, though!
1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy iii. 37 I was half a mile in the lead burning the earth like a canned dog.
1910 W. M. Raine Bucky O'Connor 20 So burn the wind, and go through the car on the jump.
1910 W. M. Raine Bucky O'Connor 57 When he finds out how the horse he's after is burning the wind, his suspicions grow stronger.
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