dash down in Czech
dash down <v.> načrtnout Entry edited by: B2
Sentence patterns related to "dash down"
1. 1300, affliccioun, "misery, sorrow, pain, distress" (originally especially "self-inflicted pain, self-mortification, religious asceticism"), from Old French afliction "act of humility, humiliation, mortification, punishment" (11c.) and directly from Latin Afflictionem (nominative afflictio), noun of action from past-participle stem of affligere "to dash down, overthrow
2. Afflict (v.) late 14c., "to cast down" (a sense now obsolete), from Old French aflicter, from Latin Afflictare "to damage, harass, torment," frequentative of affligere (past participle Afflictus) "to dash down, overthrow," from ad "to" (see ad-) + fligere (past participle flictus) "to strike," from PIE root *bhlig-"to strike" (source also of Greek phlibein "to press, crush," Czech blizna "scar