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单词 to —— into submission
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to —— (a person) into submission
P2. to —— (a person) into submission: to —— (a person) until he or she submits, surrenders, etc.; (later also more generally) to —— (a person) in a relentless or overwhelming manner.
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1642 T. Fuller Holy State ii. xix. 124 If I can civilize his rudenesse by my sword, and chastize him into submission, then he sings his penitentiall song in the true tune.
1668 R. Steele Husbandmans Calling x. 253 You would be melted into submission, not forced.
1777 Ann. Reg. 1776 58/1 That armed force which was to have looked all America into submission.
1832 Examiner 663/1 [Her] half-coaxing, half-bullying manner of protocolling him into submission was inimitable.
1856 Alton (Illinois) Weekly Courier 17 July 2/5 If I am to be brow-beaten, badgered and dragooned into submission it will not be while I am pursuing what will be called a shuffling and prevaricating line of notion.
1949 S. J. Perelman Let. 22 Feb. in Don't tread on Me (1987) 88 In case your son needs to be frightened into submission, just tell him that this is the country of the Dyak head-hunters.
1972 Star (Johannesburg) 17 Mar. 17 Here the 1700-strong Knopkierie Kommando, rough Afrikaner men, were shelled and rifled into submission.
1993 Guardian 23 Sept. ii. 3/1 Their only successful counterploy has been to bore everyone into submission.
2002 R. G. Mitchell Dancing at Armageddon v. 181 The would-be master race stands slack-jawed and mute behind the fence, can-canned into submission by six young ladies from Spokane, a dance troupe called The Class Act.
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