English Dictionary

vituperate

IPA（発音記号）

/vɪˈtjuːpəɹeɪt/

動詞

フォーマル 他動詞 自動詞

To criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner. / To attack (someone or something) with abusive language; to revile, to vilify. / (intransitive) To use abusive or harsh words.

日本語の意味

罵る。相手を激しい口調で侮辱し、厳しく非難する。 / 中傷する。侮辱的な言葉で攻撃する。

When the proposal was announced, a small group began to vituperate the board members with relentless personal attacks.

提案が発表されると、小さなグループが執拗な個人攻撃を伴って理事たちを激しく非難し始めた。

意味（1）

To criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner.

They loue not porke, nor ſwynes fleſh, but doth vituperate and abhore it, yet for all this, they will eate Adders, which is a kind of Serpentes, as well as any other Chriſtyan man dwelling in Roome, and other highe countreys, for Adders fleſhe there, is called fyſhe of the mountayne, this notwithſtanding Phiſicke doeth approbate adders fleſh good to be eaten, […]

意味（2）

To attack (someone or something) with abusive language; to revile, to vilify.

A bane to merit, he exerts himſelf to the deſtruction of every valuable virtue in literature, or in life: his pen is ne'er employed but in the abuſing and vituperating the innocent and meritorious; and like a voracious flie, he leaves and diſregards every accompliſhment, to fix upon the only ſore.

意味（3）

(intransitive) To use abusive or harsh words.

Now the Brito-Celtic Church as Mr. [Henry Charles] Coote calls it, the Church which Augustine vituperated, is a fact, but I should certainly like to have some proof of the existence of the other, the Early English Church which Augustine ignored. And I should further like to know why he vituperated in the one case and ignored in the other.

vituperates （ present singular third-person ）

vituperating （ participle present ）

vituperated （ participle past ）

vituperated （ past ）

（ table-tags ）

en-conj-simple （ inflection-template ）

vituperate （ infinitive ）