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单词 to pluck up
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to pluck up
to pluck up
1. transitive. to pluck up (one's) courage (also heart, resolution, spirits, etc.): to summon up courage, strength, etc., take courage; to raise one's spirits, cheer up.
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the mind > emotion > courage > encouragement > pluck up courage [verb]
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to take (in early use nim) heartc1275
to have the heartc1300
to hent one's heartc1325
to pull upa1393
to fang upa1400
pluckc1400
to take courage1490
to take heart of grace (and variants)c1520
to lift up one's heart, mind, soul1535
to get (also gather, keep, etc.) heart of grace1581
hearten1587
to pluck up one's courage1660
flesh1695
pluck up courage1726
to pick up1735
to call forth1802
to pluck up1827
to muster up1893
c1330 Seven Sages (Auch.) (1933) 1177 (MED) Pluk vp þi cher.
c1330 Seven Sages (Auch.) (1933) l. 2507 (MED) Confort þi self, pluk vp þin herte Swich mourning þan wil þe smerte.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) xvi. 72 Languysshe no more, but plucke vp thyne herte.
1562 Bp. J. Pilkington Expos. Abdyas Pref. 9 Let us therefore pluck vp stomackes, and pray with S. Augustine.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iv. iii. 38 Plucke vp thy spirits, looke cheerfully vpon me. View more context for this quotation
1660 C. Ellis Gentile Sinner 239 Let them pluck up their Courage, and make it appeare to the World, that they have yet something of a Noble and Generous Spirit within their breasts.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 210 Plucking up my Spirits as well as I could.
1794 R. B. Sheridan Duenna (new ed.) ii. 33 I'll pluck up resolution.
1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. v. 376 Æthelred seems now to have plucked up a little heart.
1869 A. Trollope He knew he was Right II. lv. 47 She could not pluck up courage to speak a word in Italian.
1910 ‘Saki’ Reginald in Russia 104 The little Lemberg négociant plucked up heart.
1960 W. Harris Palace of Peacock i. 17 I plucked up courage to express my inner thoughts.
a1978 S. T. Warner One Thing leading to Another (1985) 165 Mousie plucked up her spirits and re-addressed herself to the duties of a sovereign.
2004 Aberdeen Evening Express (Nexis) 8 Dec. 14 She started going out for walks and plucked up courage to join a gym.
2. transitive. To pull up; to pull (a thing) out of the place in which it is planted or set; to uproot; to eradicate; to raze, demolish. Cf. sense 4a. Also figurative.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > eradicate or extirpate
fornimOE
to put awaya1382
outroot?a1425
unroot?a1425
out-razec1425
to pluck up1484
avell1530
sweep1560
depopulate1576
ruina1586
assoil1596
to lay aside1596
untop1598
displant1603
float1606
to take off1619
amolish1624
uproota1639
eradicate1647
to lay by1681
to polish off1827
uprend1911
to zero out1951
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope i. xx [The swallow said] Come with me ye al & lete vs plucke vp al this [flax].
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos iv. 18 To arache or plucke vp a gretter tree.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Eccl. iii. 1 There is a tyme to plant, and a tyme to plucke vp the thinge, yt is planted.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 158 All fortresses and defences by them there made, were plucked vp and destroyed.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 205 Vnto the tyme quhen hæresie pluked vpe al monumentes of pietie in Scotland.
1680 in N. Bouton Provinc. Papers New-Hampsh. (1867) I. 391 Whosoever shall willfully pluck up, remove or deface any Landmark or bound betweene propertie and propertie.
1759 J. Mills tr. H. L. Duhamel du Monceau Pract. Treat. Husbandry ii. i. 114 We plucked up..some of the most thriving plants.
1844 E. B. Barrett Lady Geraldine's Courtship in Poems I. 238 I plucked up her social fictions.
1879 H. James Confidence II. xxii. 49 He would let the flower bloom for a day before plucking it up by the root.
1995 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 7 Dec. e1 He plucked up a small fir tree, placed it in the nursery and decorated the branches with candles.
3. intransitive. To recover strength or vigour; to raise one's spirits; to summon one's courage; to take heart. Cf. sense 1. Now rare.
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the mind > emotion > courage > encouragement > pluck up courage [verb]
findOE
to take (in early use nim) heartc1275
to have the heartc1300
to hent one's heartc1325
to pull upa1393
to fang upa1400
pluckc1400
to take courage1490
to take heart of grace (and variants)c1520
to lift up one's heart, mind, soul1535
to get (also gather, keep, etc.) heart of grace1581
hearten1587
to pluck up one's courage1660
flesh1695
pluck up courage1726
to pick up1735
to call forth1802
to pluck up1827
to muster up1893
1827 C. S. Talbot Squire Hartley i. 19 By the light of Moses, if I don't think he's got away—..if so, I'll begin to pluck up a bit.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xiv. 125 The worthy Mr. Lillyvick..plucked up amazingly.
1890 W. C. Russell Marriage at Sea I. i. 10 But she had plucked up as she drew towards the close of her letter.
1901 G. B. Shaw Caesar & Cleopatra iii. 153 He eats another date, and plucks up a little.
1999 Univ. Wire (California) (Nexis) 22 Nov. We got chewed out at halftime and that fires you up. We plucked up a little.
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