单词 | to laugh down |
释义 | > as lemmasto laugh down to laugh down transitive. To subdue or silence with laughter or ridicule. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > refrain from uttering [verb (transitive)] > silence or prevent from speaking to stop a person's mouthc1175 stilla1225 to keep ina1420 stifle1496 to knit up1530 to muzzle (up) the mouth1531 choke1533 muzzle?1542 to tie a person's tongue1544 tongue-tiea1555 silence1592 untongue1598 to reduce (a person or thing) to silence1605 to bite in1608 gaga1616 to swear downa1616 to laugh down1616 stifle1621 to cry down1623 unworda1627 clamour1646 splint1648 to take down1656 snap1677 stick1708 shut1809 to shut up1814 to cough down1823 to scrape down1855 to howl down1872 extinguish1878 hold1901 shout1924 to pipe down1926 1616 B. Jonson Entertainm. at Highgate 884 in Wks. I Lords, for your selues, your owne cups crowne, The ladies, ifaith, else will laugh you downe. 1749 H. Jones Poems Several Occasions 154 Hence wicked Wits would laugh Religion down. 1830 S. T. Coleridge Let. (1971) VI. 846 It is very easy to laugh or sneer down a literary Man who has..advanced and enforced any connexus of..fundamental Principles. 1856 Ld. Tennyson Maud (rev. ed.) xix. vi, in Maud & Other Poems (new ed.) 67 Whenever she touch'd on me This brother had laugh'd her down. 1900 Philistine 1900 124 He was stung by the continued efforts of the press to laugh him down. 1936 E. Chodorov Kind Lady ii. 58 I laughed her down of course—told her she was a silly woman, I insulted her frightfully. 1991 Oxf. Jrnl. Legal Stud. 11 380 Students who ask questions indicating a conservative approach to the law are laughed down by wise-cracking professors. < as lemmas |
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