| 单词 | to bathe in blood |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto bathe in blood 3. The phrase ‘ to bathe in blood’ includes and often blends 1 and 2, and is generally used figuratively to express the great quantity of blood shed. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [verb (transitive)] to bathe in bloodc1300 murderc1325 to make larder ofa1330 spend1481 to lick upa1500 slaught1535 butcher1562 wipe1577 slaughter1586 massacre1588 dispeople1596 shamble1601 depeople?1611 mow1615 internecate1623 dislaughter1661 mop1899 pogrom1915 decimate1944 overkill1946 the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [verb (intransitive)] > suffer slaughter to bathe in blooda1592 c1300 K. Alis. 2708 Mony pencel god, Quyk, y-bathed in heorte blod. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 3100 Ro[land] ..baþede is swerd in hure blod. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1248 Þay..Baþed barnes in blod & her brayn spylled. a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. Ev I will bathe My poinard in the bosome of an earle. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iii. i. 107 Let vs bathe our hands in Cæsars blood Vp to the Elbowes. View more context for this quotation a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) v. ii. 306 A tyrant which took pleasure in bathing himselfe in humane blood. 1836 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece II. xvi. 377 His plan..would have bathed Sparta in blood. < as lemmas |
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