单词 | to get free |
释义 | > as lemmasto get (also pull, wrench, etc.) free a. Not fixed, fastened, or held in a particular place. to get (also pull, wrench, etc.) free: to get (a person or thing, oneself) loose from something that restrains or impedes movement, to extricate. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > set free [verb (intransitive)] > escape from restraint to slip (the) collar1571 to get (also pull, wrench, etc.) free1590 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > [adjective] > moving easily or freely easy1483 fast-flowing1770 free1862 fluent1869 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A5v And knitting all his force got one hand free. a1622 H. Ainsworth Annot. Five Bks. Moses, Bk. Psalmes & Song of Songs (1627) 71/1 He [sc. a leper] makes his head free, and rends his clothes. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 464 Now half appeer'd The Tawnie Lion, pawing to get free His hinder parts. View more context for this quotation 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. xxxiii. 228 At one place on the road, just after I had screamed, and made another effort to get my hands free, I heard voices. a1797 M. Wollstonecraft Wrongs of Woman (1798) I. ii. 35 Were his hands free, he looks as if he could soon manage both his guards: yet he appears tranquil. 1843 J. F. Cooper Ned Myers xiii. 157 I found that one of the negroes had, indeed, disappeared. How this happened I cannot say, as he appeared to be well lashed; but I suppose he worked himself free. 1862 H. Spencer First Princ. ii. xi. §93. 313 The pennant of a vessel lying becalmed first shows the coming breeze..by gentle undulations that travel from its fixed to its free end. 1878 E. Prout in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 40 The discovery of the free reed. 1895 J. Conrad Almayer's Folly i. 9 The tree swung..round and soon getting free of the obstruction began to move. 1919 L. H. Morrison Oil Engines xii. 201 Light steel strips restrained at the ends and free to lift from the seat to allow the air to pass. 1937 A. J. Cronin Citadel ii. xi. 190 The whole of Bevan's body was free except his left forearm which lay beneath the fall. 1973 S. Lanier Hiero's Journey vii. 158 He had no time to raise the dropped leeboard, but he managed to loosen it so that it at least swung free on its pintle. 1995 C. B. Divakaruni Arranged Marriage (1997) 51 But Aunt holds tight to my arm. ‘No, Jayanti, no.’ I try to pull free but she is surprisingly strong. 2003 M. Ali Brick Lane xiii. 229 She pulled the free end of the sari over her face and moved her neck from side to side. < as lemmas |
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