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Punish someone so as to be a warning to others, as in The teacher made an example of the boy she caught cheating , or The judge imposed a tough sentence to make an example of the car thieves . This usage is first recorded in John Wycliffe's followers' translation of the Bible (c. 1382).Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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