单词 | to dash hopes |
释义 | > as lemmasto dash (any one's) hopes 6. figurative. To destroy, ruin, confound, bring to nothing, frustrate, spoil (a design, enterprise, hope, etc.): cf. smash v.1 In 16–17th centuries the usual word for the rejection of a bill in Parliament, and frequent in various applications; now Obsolete except in to dash (any one's) hopes. (Cf. 7.) ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > bring to ruin or put an end to undoc950 shendOE forfarea1000 endc1000 to do awayOE aquenchc1175 slayc1175 slayc1175 stathea1200 tinea1300 to-spilla1300 batec1300 bleschea1325 honisha1325 leesea1325 wastec1325 stanch1338 corrumpa1340 destroy1340 to put awayc1350 dissolvec1374 supplanta1382 to-shend1382 aneantizec1384 avoidc1384 to put outa1398 beshenda1400 swelta1400 amortizec1405 distract1413 consumec1425 shelfc1425 abroge1427 downthringc1430 kill1435 poisonc1450 defeat1474 perish1509 to blow away1523 abrogatea1529 to prick (also turn, pitch) over the perka1529 dash?1529 to bring (also send) to (the) pot1531 put in the pot1531 wipea1538 extermine1539 fatec1540 peppera1550 disappoint1563 to put (also set) beside the saddle1563 to cut the throat of1565 to throw (also turn, etc.) over the perch1568 to make a hand of (also on, with)1569 demolish1570 to break the neck of1576 to make shipwreck of1577 spoil1578 to knock on (in) the head (also rarely at head)1579 cipher1589 ruinate1590 to cut off by the shins1592 shipwreck1599 exterminate1605 finish1611 damnify1612 ravel1614 braina1616 stagger1629 unrivet1630 consummate1634 pulverizea1640 baffle1649 devil1652 to blow up1660 feague1668 shatter1683 cook1708 to die away1748 to prove fatal (to)1759 to knock up1764 to knock (or kick) the hindsight out or off1834 to put the kibosh on1834 to cook (rarely do) one's goose1835 kibosh1841 to chaw up1843 cooper1851 to jack up1870 scuttle1888 to bugger up1891 jigger1895 torpedo1895 on the fritz1900 to put paid to1901 rot1908 down and out1916 scuppera1918 to put the skids under1918 stonker1919 liquidate1924 to screw up1933 cruel1934 to dig the grave of1934 pox1935 blow1936 to hit for six1937 to piss up1937 to dust off1938 zap1976 ?1529 S. Fish Supplicacyon for Beggers sig. A5 He shal be excommunicate and then be all his accions dasshed. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 240/1 All the hope of Anselme was dasht. 1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum ii. ii. 41 As the crie of yea or no is bigger, so the bill is allowed or dashed. 1627 M. Drayton Battaile Agincourt 3 A warre with France, must be the way To dash this Bill. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) i. 59 Those hopes were no sooner conceived then dasht. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World vi. 157 So the design was wholly dashed. 1710 H. Prideaux Orig. & Right Tithes iv. 214 To dash what arguments may be brought from hence. 1840 Chartist Circular No. 5. 225 This dashes the bit-by-bit system [of reform]. 1861 C. H. Pearson Early & Middle Ages Eng. 143 Dunstan's hopes were again dashed by the news of Edward's death. < as lemmas |
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