| 单词 | to dust off |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto dust off 12. to dust off. extracted from dustv.1 a. intransitive. (See sense 10.) b. transitive. = sense 6a (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > dusting > dust [verb (transitive)] dust1568 undust1611 to dust off1948 1948 A. Huxley Ape & Essence (1949) 127 The charvessels can dust off the tables and wash the floors. 1959 Economist 18 Apr. 218/1 The clerics are..dusting off their copies of Fox's Book of Martyrs. c. To bring to ruin, defeat, kill; to discard, get rid of. slang (originally U.S.). 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 the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > get or be rid of refusea1387 to be rid of (also on)c1450 beskyfte1470 to be, get shut of, (dialect) shut on?a1500 to claw off1514 get1558 to put away1577 to get rid of1591 quit1606 to get off with1719 ding1753 shoot1805 to stay shet of1837 shuck1848 shunt1858 shake1872 to dust off1938 1938 H. Asbury Sucker's Progress xii. 385 He had been dusted off by Vanderbilt. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §27/5 Eliminate; discard; get rid of,..dust off. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §118/3 Kill; murder,..dust off. 1960 Times 13 Dec. 4/1 They have always been dusted off in the inter~zone matches. < as lemmas |
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