English Dictionary

countermand

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌkaʊntəˈmɑːnd/

動詞

他動詞 比喩的用法 廃用

To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given. / To recall a person or unit with such an order. / To cancel an order for (some specified goods).

日本語の意味

以前に出した命令や指示を撤回する、取り消す。 / 以前の命令に反して新たな命令を出し、既存の命令を無効にする。 / 指定された商品の注文を取り消す、キャンセルする。

The general decided to countermand the battalion's advance order after receiving updated intelligence.

将軍は更新された情報を受けて、大隊の進撃命令を撤回することにした。

意味（1）

To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given.

to countermand an order for goods

意味（2）

To recall a person or unit with such an order.

意味（3）

To cancel an order for (some specified goods).

Three of the maids of honour ſent to countermand their birth-day cloaths; two of them burnt all their collections of novels and romances, and ſent to a bookſeller’s in Pall-mall to buy each of them a bible, and Taylor’s holy living and dying.

意味（4）

(figuratively) To counteract, to act against, to frustrate.

Early on, Ezra gives her a lesson to countermand the endless female impulse to apologise: “Darling, don’t continually say ‘I’m sorry’. Next time you feel like saying ‘I’m sorry’, instead say ‘Fuck you’.”

意味（5）

(obsolete) To prohibit (a course of action or behavior).

Avicen countermands letting blood in choleric bodles.

意味（6）

(obsolete) To oppose or revoke the command of (someone).

For us to alter anything, is to lift ourselves against God; and, as it were, to countermand him.

意味（7）

(obsolete) To maintain control of, to keep under command.

Two thousand horſe ſhal forrage vp and downe, That no reliefe or ſuccour come by land. And all the ſea my Gallies countermaund.

countermands （ present singular third-person ）

countermanding （ participle present ）

countermanded （ participle past ）

countermanded （ past ）