| 单词 | to fray away |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto fray away a. To frighten or scare away. Also to fray away, to fray off, or to fray out. Cf. affray v. 4. Obsolete exc. archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing physical symptoms > cause physical symptoms [verb (transitive)] > frighten away feezec890 shuncha1225 aschewelea1250 fearc1420 scarec1450 affray1487 fray1526 fright1599 lowbell1642 shy1845 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > drive away > attack and drive away to fray off1526 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Oviii God hath ordeyned a..speciall remedy, wherwith we may fray them away. 1533 W. Tyndale Souper of Lorde cv b Why fraye ye the commen people from the lytteral sense with thys bugge? 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. E2v Are the Turtles fraide out of their neastes. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage vi. i. 560 It [the Basilisk]..frayeth away other serpents with the hissing. a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) X. 232 Can he fray off the vultur from his breast? 1825 W. Scott Betrothed vii, in Tales Crusaders II. 137 It is enough to fray every hawk from the perch. 1867 H. E. Manning Eng. & Christendom 154 We should have to answer to the Good Shepherd, if so much as one of His sheep were frayed away from the fold by harsh voices. < as lemmas |
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