单词 | to break, snap short |
释义 | > as lemmasto break, snap (etc.) short (off) b. to break, snap (etc.) short (off): to break straight across, so as to leave nothing beyond the plane of fracture; to break off close to the point of attachment. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > become detached [verb (intransitive)] > break off > short knap1545 to break, snap (etc.) short (off)1679 1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. vii. 124 It may cut or brake it short asunder. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 48. ⁋2 I..pretended that I had broken my Wooden-Leg..but I snap'd it short off on purpose. 1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 145 The Gloucester's..Fore-top-mast broke short. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 327 This weapon will snap short . View more context for this quotation 1850 H. T. Cheever Whale & his Captors xii. 197 His first effort broke it short at the lock. 1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting vi. 212 He broke almost every tooth short off upon this chain, in his furious efforts to bite it through. 1865 Visct. Milton & W. B. Cheadle N.-W. Passage by Land (1867) ii. 31 We..saw..great trees blown down, or trunks snapped short off. 1898 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 17 Her wheel stood in the corner with the thread snapped short in the heck. < as lemmas |
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