单词 | to raze to the ground |
释义 | > as lemmasto raze to the ground a. transitive. To tear down, demolish, or level (a building, town, etc.). Formerly occasionally with †up. In later use esp. in to raze to the ground. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > break down, demolish, or ruin spillc950 fellOE to cast downc1230 destroy1297 to turn up?c1335 to throw down1340 to ding downc1380 to break downa1382 subverta1382 underturn1382 to take downc1384 falla1400 to make (a building, etc.) plain (with the earth)a1400 voida1400 brittenc1400 to burst downc1440 to pull downc1450 pluck1481 tumble1487 wreck1510 defacea1513 confound1523 raze1523 arase1530 to beat downc1540 ruinate1548 demolish1560 plane1562 to shovel down1563 race?1567 ruin1585 rape1597 unwall1598 to bluster down16.. raise1603 level1614 debolish1615 unbuilda1616 to make smooth work of1616 slight1640 to knock down1776 squabash1822 collapse1883 to turn over1897 mash1924 rubble1945 to take apart1978 α. β. a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. Civ I saw Troye fall..Neptunus town clene razed from the soil.1597 T. Beard Theatre Gods Iudgements ii. xvii. 302 A certain Sirian..pulled downe castles, razed vp townes, & destroied euery where.1633 G. Herbert Sacrifice in Temple xvii Some said, that I the Temple to the floore In three dayes raz'd.1690 N. Lee Massacre of Paris v. iv, 50 The Hostel de Chastillon Be raz'd for ever.1767 G. Lyttelton Hist. Henry II II. 339 The enemy..entered triumphant into Hereford, spoiled and fired the city, razed the walls to the ground [etc.].1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1869) I. xxiv. 690 The fortifications were razed to the ground.1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. iii. ii. 377 If it were refused, the Aztecs would raze their cities to their foundations.1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. 40 Having razed Troy with her strong defences I should see my home again.1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 61/1 In 1647 the parliamentarian troops razed the castle to the ground.1962 A. MacLean Satan Bug vi. 91 That stronghold of the Antichrist must be utterly razed so that no stone be left standing.2006 S. Ings Weight of Numbers 36 The garage and the tea shop were gone, razed, a greenfield Tesco in their place.1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. f. C.xcviiv/1 The fortresse was rased and beaten downe to the erthe. 1549 W. Thomas Hist. Italie f. 168 And thervpon the Uenetians toke, sacked and rased their houses to the earth. 1574 J. Studley tr. J. Bale Pageant of Popes f. 114v He assaulted & wan diuers townes, some he sacked and razed to the grounde, some he burnt with fier. 1611 Bible (King James) Psalms cxxxvii. 7 Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem; who sayd, rase it, rase it: euen to the foundation thereof. View more context for this quotation 1659 Mercurius Politicus No. 592. 822 His Goods also have been confiscated, his house razed to the ground. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 302 They..rased the noblest Structures in the Land, to sell the Materials. 1762 T. Flloyd tr. N. L. Dufresnoy Chronological Tables II. 66 The Goths took, and rased the city of Milan. 1791 J. West Edmund Ironside ii. iii, in Misc. Poems 156 Your sacred groves shall never be invaded. No ruffian hand shall rase your walls. 1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands vi. 158 Ibrahim Pasha..rased their houses to the ground. 1901 F. W. Rolfe Chron. House Borgia 89 He and his brother were forced to look on while his house was rased to the ground. 1961 E. Fitzgerald tr. S. Labin Anthill vi. 97 The Chinese Communist Government has ordered that the tombs..shall be rased and the dead collectivised by being transferred to public cemeteries. 1991 H. Kamen Spain, 1469–1714 iii. 174 2,500 inhabitants, including women and children, were slaughtered, the town was rased and salt poured over it. < as lemmas |
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