English Dictionary

witch-hunt

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈwɪtʃhʌnt/

名詞

歴史的

(now chiefly historical) A search for people believed to be using sorcery or harmful magic, typically in order to persecute or punish them.

日本語の意味

（主に歴史的用法）魔法や呪術を用いて害を及ぼすと信じられた人物を捜し出し、迫害または処罰するための捜索や行為 / 転じて、根拠の薄い疑いや不当な批判に基づく集団的な迫害のことを指す場合もある

The historian warned that what began as a rumor quickly escalated into a witch-hunt.

歴史家は、噂として始まったことがたちまち魔女狩りに発展したと警告した。

意味（1）

(now chiefly historical) A search for people believed to be using sorcery or harmful magic, typically in order to persecute or punish them.

To-night ye will see. It is the great witch-hunt, and many will be smelt out as wizards and slain.

意味（2）

An attempt to find and punish or harass a group of people perceived as a threat, usually on ideological or political grounds.

Rank-and-file Communists everywhere are led away on a senseless witch-hunt after 'Trotskyists'.

意味（3）

A public or political campaign or investigation which smears a person or group.

Even fewer people could believe that the UNCW administration would actually undertake a witch hunt against me, even going so far as to invoke their right to read my personal e-mails because they were on the university's system.

witch-hunts （ plural ）