| 单词 | to pore one's eyes out |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto pore one's eyes out ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > of vision: become disordered [verb (intransitive)] > strain eyes to pore one's eyes out1532 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > stare or gaze at > bring about by staring stare1663 pore1707 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 425 He were like to pore oute his eyen vpon the latine booke, ere he find that englishe woord elder there. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 43 b I that haue poor'd out myne eyes vpon bookes. 1698 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 455 Old, rusty, Moth eaten Books, upon which a Man may pore his Eyes out before he can read a Word or a Line. 1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 37 He might..have..por'd himself into Stupidity. a1754 H. Fielding Fathers (1778) v. v. 109 Thou' I have hated books as I do the devil,..I'll pore my eyes out rather than lose her. 1788 Times 21 May 3/2 A House where all the windows but three were shut up—the poor mother and children poring their eyes out in the dark. < as lemmas |
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