| 单词 | to do violence to |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto do violence to (also †unto) P1. to do violence to (also †unto): to inflict harm, injury, or damage on; (also) to restrict, constrain, or alter unnaturally; to distort the meaning of.In early use also with double object. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > cause or effect (harm) [verb (transitive)] > do harm or injury to werdec725 wema1000 evilc1000 harmc1000 hinderc1000 teenOE scathec1175 illc1220 to wait (one) scathec1275 to have (…) wrong1303 annoya1325 grievec1330 wrong1390 to do violence to (also unto)a1393 mischievea1393 damagea1400 annulc1425 trespass1427 mischief1437 poisonc1450 injurea1492 damnify1512 prejudge1531 misfease1571 indemnify1583 bane1601 debauch1633 lese1678 empoison1780 misguggle1814 nobble1860 strafe1915 to dick up1951 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > treat violently [verb (transitive)] outragec1390 to do violence untoa1393 to lay violent hands on (or upon)a1428 to put hand(s) to (also in, on)1526 surprise1548 violate1584 violenta1661 bedevil1768 strong-arm1896 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > damage or injure [verb (transitive)] mareOE shendOE hinderc1000 amarOE awemc1275 noyc1300 touchc1300 bleche1340 blemisha1375 spill1377 misdoa1387 grieve1390 damagea1400 despoil?a1400 matea1400 snapea1400 mankc1400 overthrowa1425 tamec1430 undermine1430 blunder1440 depaira1460 adommage?1473 endamage1477 prejudicec1487 fulyie1488 martyra1500 dyscrase?1504 corrupt1526 mangle1534 danger1538 destroy1542 spoil1563 ruinate1564 ruin1567 wrake1570 injury1579 bane1587 massacre1589 ravish1594 wrong1595 rifle1604 tainta1616 mutilea1618 to do violence toa1625 flaw1665 stun1676 quail1682 maul1694 moil1698 damnify1712 margullie1721 maul1782 buga1790 mux1806 queer1818 batter1840 puckeroo1840 rim-rack1841 pretty1868 garbage1899 savage1899 to do in1905 strafe1915 mash1924 blow1943 nuke1967 mung1969 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) viii. l. 1937 Appolinus..telleth hem the violence Which the tretour Strangulio And Dionise him hadde do. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 19325 Þai durst na uiolence to þam do For þe folk þam helded to. ?1535 [see sense 5b]. 1594 T. Kyd tr. R. Garnier Cornelia iv. i. 28 Iuba and Petreus, fiercely combatting, Haue each done other equall violence. a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Knight of Malta v. ii, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Mmmmm3/2 They have done violence unto her Tomb, Not granting rest unto her in the grave. 1692 tr. C. de Saint-Évremond Misc. Ess. 93 I make no question, but that in the violence of the Triumvirate, he did much Violence to himself. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. xii. iii. 206 To say the Truth, we have..often done great Violence to the Luxuriance of our Genius. View more context for this quotation 1800 A. Clarke Let. Methodist Preacher ii. 15 Never do violence to the word of God, by taking a text out of the connection in which his Spirit has placed it. 1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 474 They did violence to the majesty of the law,..and then, through profaning it, did violence to man. 1880 G. Smith Cowper iii. 41 Cowper himself was made to do violence to his intense shyness by leading in prayer. 1917 Northwestern Reporter 163 909/1 The words ‘at that time’ referred to, and only to, the time of the wife's death. Any other construction would do violence to the language employed. 1933 B. Gadelius Human Mentality ii. 83 Neurology and Psychiatry are sciences which are so intertwined..that they can only be separated by doing violence to the natural connection. 1991 N. Broude Impressionism (1997) vii. 158 Terms..which did not do violence to the original intentions of these still-Romantic painters of nature. 2001 J. Monahan et al. Rethinking Risk Assessm. vii. 133 An apparently serious statement of intention to do violence to a named victim. < as lemmas |
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