| 单词 | to gulp down |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto gulp down 2. transferred and figurative. Chiefly to gulp down. extracted from gulpv. a. To swallow up, devour, take in. (Also with up.) ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come into [verb (transitive)] > take in > in large amounts to gulp downa1625 a1625 J. Fletcher Wit without Money (1639) i. sig. C1 Lance. Has he devoured you too? Fran. Has gulped me downe Lance. Lance. Left you no meanes to study. Fran. Not a farthing: dispatcht my poore annuity I thanke him. a1754 H. Fielding Voy. Lisbon in Wks. (1784) X. 259 The old man..glibly gulped down the whole narrative. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) I. 318 So many brooks and springs..collected from every quarter, to be gulped up in one great navigable canal. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. v. 100 The worthy knight fairly gulped down the oaths. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 21 Aug. 6/1 Gulping down any scheme of vain promise. b. To keep in or ‘stifle’ by a process analogous to swallowing. Also with in, back. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > devour, engulf, or consume (of fire, water, etc.) supeOE eatc950 fretc1000 forthnimc1175 forfret?c1225 to-fret?c1225 swallowa1340 devourc1374 upsoup1382 consumea1398 bisweligha1400 founderc1400 absorb1490 to swallow up1531 upsupa1547 incinerate1555 upswallow1591 fire1592 absume1596 abyss1596 worm1604 depredate1626 to gulp downa1644 whelm1667 a1644 F. Quarles Judgem. & Mercy (1646) 2 Gulp downe care in frolique cups of liberall Wine. 1778 F. Burney Let. Sept. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 158 [As] reproaches and expostulations..can do no good, I gulp them down. c1793 Ld. Bulkely in G. Rose Diaries (1860) I. 131 I gulped in the grievance. 1840 W. Irving Ralph Ringwood in Knickerbocker Mag. Aug. 156 I felt my heart swell in my throat; but I gulped it back to its place. 1869 A. Trollope He knew he was Right I. xxviii. 220 [She] had gulped down her sobs and was resolved to be firm. < as lemmas |
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