English Dictionary

scarecrow

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈskɛəkɹəʊ/

動詞

他動詞 古語

To cause (a person, their body, etc.) to look awkward and stiff, like a scarecrow (noun sense 1). / To splay (one's arms) away from the body, like the arms of a scarecrow.

日本語の意味

人の体や姿勢を、カカシのようにぎこちなく硬直させる / 腕を、カカシのように身体から大きく左右に広げる

The sudden spotlight seemed to scarecrow him on stage, making his arms stick out awkwardly.

突然のスポットライトで彼は舞台上で案山子のようにぎこちなく固まってしまい、腕を不自然に突き出していた。

意味（1）

To cause (a person, their body, etc.) to look awkward and stiff, like a scarecrow (noun sense 1).

意味（2）

To splay (one's arms) away from the body, like the arms of a scarecrow.

With his stiff, awkward body, his knees bent, his arms scarecrowed far to either side, he had acted it all out, had been Adam trembling in the garden of his lost innocence, Moses on Sinai, Jahweh creating the heavens and the earth; […]

意味（3）

To frighten or terrify (someone or something), as if using a scarecrow.

[T]hat old acquaintance, […] is neither lullabied with thy sweete Papp, nor ſcarre-crowed with thy ſower hatchet.

意味（4）

(archaic) To spoil the appearance of (something, such as the landscape or a view), as scarecrows may be regarded as doing.

Fatigued and hungry as our party were after a long drive through the desolate region of malaria, wild buffaloes, wild birds, and yet wilder specimens of the human race, which here and there scare-crow the broad, sadly picturesque expanse between the last cork-trees near Salerno, and the treeless vicinage of the temple of Neptune, we dared not venture upon fish with green bones,—the only dish served up for our repast; […] we all preferred bearing our hunger, and traversing a second time the fiery plain unrefreshed, to breaking our fast upon such suspicious diet; […]

scarecrows （ present singular third-person ）

scarecrowing （ participle present ）

scarecrowed （ participle past ）

scarecrowed （ past ）