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单词 to carry to an extreme
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to carry to an extreme
5. An excessive degree; a ‘very great length’, in phrases to break to an extreme, to carry to an extreme, to run to an extreme; also, something carried to excess, an extreme measure, a desperate step.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [noun] > excessive degree
extreme1592
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > exaggerate [verb (intransitive)] > in action
overdoa1325
to break to an extreme1592
overact1631
to fly high (or a high pitch)1655
outgrabe1855
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. H2 If I prooue Playes to be no extreame.
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iii. i. 214 Doe not breake into these deepe extreames . View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 6 My gracious Lord, To chide at your extreames, it not becomes me. View more context for this quotation
1752 E. Young Brothers iv. i On what Extremes extreme distress impels me?
1789 W. Belsham Ess. I. xii. 217 This would be running into a very absurd extreme.
1804 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 12 329 The antiphlogistic regimen, carried into extremes..have been the causes.
1862 Mrs. H. Wood Life's Secret xi. 88/1 I never thought the masters would go to the extreme of a lock-out.
extracted from extremeadj.adv.n.
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