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单词 to get within
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to get within ——
to get within ——
Obsolete.
1. intransitive. To succeed in coming within the defences of (an adversary).
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society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > fight with [verb (transitive)] > fight at close quarters
to get within ——1523
to grapple witha1616
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cxxxviiiv/1 Ther was a sore encountre with speares and sheldes, and they were a certayne space or any of them coude get within other.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xxiv. sig. Ee3v I had in a short space gotten within him, and (giuing him a sound blowe) sent him to feede fishes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) v. i. 34 Some get within him, take his sword away. View more context for this quotation
1659 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age ii. ii. xvi. 279 Got within shot of the enemy, who fearing that by degrees the English Fleet would get within them; set up their sailes [etc.].
1710 D. Manley Mem. Europe I. ii. 347 Drawing his Sword with his Height, Rage, and Strength, he presently got within him.
1860 D. P. Thompson Doomed Chief xviii. 349 Our first struggle will be to get within them; and then will come the more terrible one of making headway against the then doubly desperate three thousand defenders we shall be sure to find there.
2. intransitive. figurative. To succeed in deceiving (a person); to win the confidence of.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > speech intended to deceive > beguile, cajole [verb (transitive)]
bicharrea1100
fodea1375
begoc1380
inveiglea1513
to hold in halsc1560
to get within ——1572
cajole1645
to cajole with1665
butter1725
veigle1745
flummer1764
to get round ——1780
to come round ——1784
to get around ——1803
flatter-blind1818
salve1825
to come about1829
round1854
canoodle1864
moody1934
fanny1938
cosy1939
mamaguy1939
snow1943
snow-job1962
1572 J. Bridges tr. R. Gwalther Hundred, Threescore & Fiftene Homelyes vppon Actes Apostles cxxxiii. 739 They haue craftily crope and gotte within men through their pretence of vertuousnesse.
1640 R. Sanderson Serm. I. 303 By this very means he got within our grandmother Eve.
1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 154 I should so much sympathize with him, to get within him to know his intentions.
a1676 M. Hale Judgm. True Relig. (1684) iii. 45 Gentleness, softness, mildness, and personal respectfulness quiet the Passions and Spirits of the adverse Party, gain upon him, get within him.
1861 W. S. Blacket Young Men's Class (ed. 2) vii. 94 If he would convince them of sin, he may talk long about it and effect nothing; but if he can get within them,..he can, to use a figure, storm the citadel instead of besieging it.
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