单词 | to strike it out |
释义 | > as lemmasto strike it out a. intransitive. To use one's weapons: to fight. Also with cognate object. Const. for (a cause, one's king or country, etc.). Also, †to strike it out. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > fight [verb (intransitive)] fightc900 deal993 wraxlec1000 skirm?c1225 makec1275 mellc1300 to fight togethera1400 meddlec1400 match1440 wring1470 cobc1540 toilc1540 strike1579 beat1586 scuffle1590 exchange blows1594 to bang it out or aboutc1600 buffeta1616 tussle1638 dimicate1657 to try a friskin1675 to battle it1821 muss1851 scrap1874 to mix it1905 dogfight1929 yike1940 to go upside (someone's) head1970 1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 41v The stoutest Souldier, when the Trumpet sounds, strikes fiercest. 1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades viii. 137 Both sides so soundly stroke it out, right doubtful was the fray. 1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 32 They were neuer knowen to strike stroke amongst themselues. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. iii. 288 His present gift Shall furnish me to those Italian fields Where noble fellowes strike . View more context for this quotation 1825 W. Scott Talisman ix, in Tales Crusaders III. 218 He despairs of the security of Palestine..since the arm of Richard of England hath ceased to strike for it. 1842 W. C. Taylor Student's Man. Anc. Hist. (ed. 3) xii. §1. 312 [Cleomenes] followed by a few friends rushed through the streets of Alexandria, exhorting the multitude to strike for freedom. 1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest II. vii. 154 I should indeed like to strike one blow for the King, come what will. 1889 S. Walpole Life Ld. J. Russell II. xxviii. 314 Austria, though too angry to be silent, was too timid to strike. < as lemmas |
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