| 单词 | to frighten to death |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto frighten (also hate, etc.) to death b. Intensifying verbs or adjectives of feeling: to the last extremity, to the utmost, to the point of physical or nervous exhaustion, beyond endurance, (in weakened sense) extremely, to a high degree, as to frighten (also hate, etc.) to death, sorry (also worried, etc.) to death. Cf. Phrases 2b.See also fed to death at fed adj. 3, sick to death of at sick adj. 5b, to tickle to death at tickle v.1 3, tire to death at tire v.1 7. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > intense emotion > [adverb] > in a deeply affecting manner to deathOE to the deatha1375 to the spleen1568 viscerally1637 heart-piercingly1774 OE tr. Vindicta Salvatoris (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) in J. E. Cross Two Old Eng. Apocrypha (1996) 265 Þa ða cyningas..þæt gehyrdon, hig wæron swyðe gedrefede and to deaðe afærede [L. usque ad mortem]. a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 56 My peyne pyneþ me to dede. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13070 (MED) Herodias him hated to ded. 1583 C. Hollyband Campo di Fior 241 Clodius is inamoured to dead of a certaine yong woman. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iv. ii. 1 Grif. How do's your Grace? Kath. O Griffith, sicke to death . View more context for this quotation 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. ii. 58 The Hereticks abhor me to death. 1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada ii. iii. iii. 112 I'm sad to death, that I must be your Foe. 1711 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 184 He is wurryed to death by those ungrateful nations. 1773 H. Chapone Lett. Improvem. Mind II. 80 A gentleman, who would resent to death, an imputation of falsehood. 1806 R. Bloomfield Wild Flowers 45 Some almost laugh'd themselves to dead. 1830 J. Banim Denounced II. 273 Tell her I am sorry to death, and send my petition to see her. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xxii. 59 My stars, Simmun!.. You frighten me to death! 1889 L. B. Walford Stiff-necked Generation xxix. 342 Keep it dark,..or we shall have the poor girl bothered to death. 1932 A. Christie Peril at End House iii. 40 I have been worried to death. Everybody's been telling me I'm nervy. 1969 S. Harris Puritan Jungle x. 191 They're what we call ‘closet cases’, hiding and scared to death of exposure. 1997 A. Lamott Crooked Little Heart (1998) iii. 264 I'm sorry! I'm fucking sorry to death! Okay? < as lemmas |
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