| 单词 | torn-down |
| 释义 | > as lemmastorn-down 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. < as lemmas |
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