| 单词 | to put to the worst |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto put to (also at) the worst (a) to put to (also at) the worst: to defeat, overcome. Also to drive to the worst. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat shendc893 overwinOE overheaveOE mate?c1225 to say checkmatea1346 vanquishc1366 stightlea1375 outrayc1390 to put undera1393 forbeat1393 to shave (a person's) beardc1412 to put to (also at, unto) the (also one's) worsec1425 adawc1440 supprisec1440 to knock downc1450 to put to the worsta1475 waurc1475 convanquish1483 to put out1485 trima1529 convince1548 foil1548 whip1571 evict1596 superate1598 reduce1605 convict1607 defail1608 cast1610 banga1616 evince1620 worst1646 conquer1655 cuffa1657 trounce1657 to ride down1670 outdo1677 routa1704 lurcha1716 fling1790 bowl1793 lick1800 beat1801 mill1810 to row (someone) up Salt River1828 defeat1830 sack1830 skunk1832 whop1836 pip1838 throw1850 to clean out1858 take1864 wallop1865 to sock it to1877 whack1877 to clean up1888 to beat out1893 to see off1919 to lower the boom on1920 tonk1926 clobber1944 ace1950 to run into the ground1955 a1475 (a1447) O. Bokenham Mappula Angliae in Englische Studien (1887) 10 10 Þe dwellers takyne hit for a pronosticacioun þat for þat ȝere þat part shalle gone vndur & be putte at the worst, and þe oþer part preuaylene. a1500 (c1465) in J. Gairdner Three 15th-cent. Chrons. (1880) 59 She..put him dyverse tymes at the worste. ?1575 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. (new ed.) 338 They liued by robbing and pilling one from another, euermore driuing the weakest to the worst. 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Destroço Putting to the woorst, putting to flight. 1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Andria i. iii, in Terence in Eng. 20 Me & illum herus pessundedit. My master hath put him and me to the worst. 1644 J. Vicars Jehovah-Jireh 194 Our left wing being thus put to the worst. 1687 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 541 The party so exceedingly put to the worst by the preaching & writing of the Protestants. 1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil i. v. 76 Putting Michael and all the faithful Army to the worst. 1813 J. Nightingale Beauties Eng. & Wales XIII. ii. 914 Sir William Brereton came in with 1500 horse, by which means the kings forces were put to the worst. < as lemmas |
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