“dead、beat”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

dead-beat

释义

ˈdead-ˈbeat, v. rare.
[f. the ppl. adj.]
1. trans. To exhaust, wear out. colloq.
1868M. E. Braddon Run to Earth II. ix. 169 If I ain't dead-beat, it's only because it isn't in circumstances to dead-beat me.
2. U.S. slang.
a. intr. To sponge; to loaf.
b. trans. To sponge on; to cheat.
1881W. O. Stoddard E. Hardery 177 He's dead beated on you.1888Boston Jrnl. (Farmer), No party can dead-beat his way on me these hard times.
So dead-ˈbeaten ppl. a., exhausted.
1875J. G. Holland Sevenoaks i. 3 One by one—sick, disabled, discouraged, dead-beaten—they drifted into the poor-house.1933Masefield Bird of Dawning 220 He felt dead-beaten, yet saw endless things to be done.

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