单词 | torn |
释义 | tornadj. a. Rent or riven by being pulled violently asunder; wearing torn garments. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > tearing or tearing apart > [adjective] > torn or torn apart betorna1300 forpinchedc1325 torn1362 broken1377 tatteringc1380 renta1382 fortorn1496 lacerate1514 lacerated1556 rented1559 rived1581 dilaniated1597 dilacerate1602 discerpted1607 berent1608 rended1612 breacheda1649 dilacerated1650 vultured1946 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. v. 111 In A toren Tabart of twelue Wynter Age. c1425 Cast. Persev. 109 in Macro Plays 80 Þer schal com a lythyr ladde with a torne hod. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Torne garmentes, lacides. 1619 J. Donne Hymne to Christ 1 In what torne ship soever I embarke. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires i. 9 Tho born a Slave, tho my torn Ears are bor'd. ?a1750 Nursery Rime, ‘House that Jack Built’ viii This is the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy III. vi. 171 A rent and torn ravine resembling a deserted water-course. 1860 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth lxxi The poor torn, worn creature wept. b. spec. Botany: see quots.; also in combination. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [adjective] > divided, segmented, slashed, or lobed lobated1703 quinquefid1703 lobousa1722 biparted1725 tripartite1753 lobate1760 octofid1760 septemfid1777 parted1785 triquadrifid1833 rimiform1837 slashed1839 lobulate1862 bipartite1864 palmilobed1876 pentafid1882 segmented1883 lobose1885 torn1888 triquinate1891 sectile1899 1776 J. Lee Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) Explan. Terms 384 Lacerum, lacerate, where the Margin is variously divided, as if torn.] 1888 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. VII. Torn,..Bot., irregularly divided by deep incisions. 1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Torn-crenate, Bot., crenate by a torn margin. Compounds C1. In combination with adverbs, as torn-off, torn-out, torn-up. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > [adjective] > torn or pulled out or up uppulledc1440 uptorna1586 revolteda1668 ripped1830 torn-up1845 updrawn1901 1845 C. Darwin Jrnl. (ed. 2) x. 210 Masses of rock and torn-up trees. C2. torn-down adj. (a) that has been rent or pulled down; (b) figurative rough, riotous, boisterous, disorderly (dialect and U.S.). reduced in circumstances (Scottish and dialect); also n., a rough riotous person. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [adjective] > demolishing > demolished or ruined razed?1518 flat1560 prostrate1560 overthrown1579 uplaid1582 demolished1609 fight-rac't?1611 collapsed1620 slighted1656 flatted1681 wrecked1818 fallen1821 torn-down1933 1861 J. Barr Poems 119 (E.D.D.) Like some torn-doun playactor, That had sung for his bread thro' a fair. 1870 W. M. Baker New Timothy xxxii. 344 You know I was a girl onst; led the General a dance of it, I tell you. Yes, a real torn-down piece I was. 1877–88 in E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Torn-down, riotous, disorderly; said of a child. 1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. Torn down, a rough, riotous person. 1933 S. Spender Poems 40 Through torn-down portions of old fabric. 1953 K. Reisz Technique Film Editing i. 35 Other fragments of the torn-down statue of the Czar reassembling. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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