单词 | to cry craven |
释义 | > as lemmasto cry craven b. to cry craven: to acknowledge oneself vanquished, to give up the contest, surrender. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defeat > be defeated [verb (intransitive)] > surrender to cry (or say) creanta1250 to yield oneself creanta1250 to do (also put) oneself in (also to) a person's mercya1325 yieldc1330 recray1340 summisec1450 render1523 amain1540 surrender1560 to throw down one's arms (also weapons, etc.)1593 articulate1595 to yield (also bow oneself) to (also upon) mercy1595 to give grass1597 capitulate1601 to cry cravena1634 to lower or strike one's flag1644 bail1840 hands-up1879 kamerad1914 the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > defeat or overthrow > be defeated or overthrown [verb (intransitive)] > confess oneself beaten to cry creak?1562 to give, lay down, yield the bucklers1592 to cry cravena1634 holler1845 the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)] > give way or give in benda1400 sink?a1513 to give over1530 to cry creak?1562 yield1576 to hold up1596 succumb1604 to give in1616 to hoist, lower, strike the topsaila1629 to cry cravena1634 to give up or cross the cudgels1654 incumb1656 to fall in1667 to knock under1670 to knock under board, under (the) table1692 to strike underc1730 knuckle down1735 to throw (also chuck) up the sponge1860 chuck up (the sponge)1864 to throw in one's hand1893 to sky the wipe (or towel)1907 to drop one's bundle1915 to throw (chuck, or toss) in the towel1915 to buckle up1927 a1634 E. Coke Inst. Lawes Eng. (1648) iii. 221 If he become recreant, that is, a crying Coward or Craven he shall for his perjury lose liberam legem. 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iv. xi. 186 He had been visited with a desperate sicknesse, insomuch that all art cried craven, as unable to help him. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 340 Or victory is obtained, if either champion proves recreant, that is, yields, and pronounces the horrible word of craven. 1805 R. Southey Madoc i. xv. 154 I..will make That wretched man cry craven in the dust. 1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. xv. 448 Neither King nor Duke was a man likely to cry craven. < as lemmas |
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