英语词汇“put to the sword”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

put to the sword

Kill, especially in war.Whole villages were put to the sword, livestock was slaughtered, crops destroyed and famine and disease decimated the survivors....

There wasn't all that much of the murderous stuff that took place later in the Thirty Years War, when towns were sacked and people who were not involved in the war were all put to the sword.
After a brief resistance the town was taken by storm and 20,000 men, women and children were put to the sword or burned to death, including hundreds who had packed the cathedral seeking sanctuary.

Synonyms

kill, execute, put to death, murder, butcher, slaughter, annihilate, massacre, cut down, mow down

literary slay

See parent entry: sword

单词	put to the sword
释义	put to the sword Kill, especially in war.Whole villages were put to the sword, livestock was slaughtered, crops destroyed and famine and disease decimated the survivors.... There wasn't all that much of the murderous stuff that took place later in the Thirty Years War, when towns were sacked and people who were not involved in the war were all put to the sword. After a brief resistance the town was taken by storm and 20,000 men, women and children were put to the sword or burned to death, including hundreds who had packed the cathedral seeking sanctuary. Synonyms kill, execute, put to death, murder, butcher, slaughter, annihilate, massacre, cut down, mow down literary slay See parent entry: sword
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