English Dictionary

amain

IPA（発音記号）

/əˈmeɪn/

副詞

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(archaic, literary) With all of one's might; mightily; forcefully, violently. / (archaic) At full speed; also, in great haste. / (Britain, dialectal) Out of control. / (obsolete) Exceedingly; overmuch.

日本語の意味

全力で、激しく、力一杯 / 全速力で、急いで / 制御不能な様子で / 非常に、極端に

The sailors pulled amain as the storm drove the ship toward the jagged rocks.

嵐が船を鋭い岩場に押し流す中、船員たちは全力で綱を引いた。

意味（1）

(archaic, literary) With all of one's might; mightily; forcefully, violently.

And in beholding how he [the cyclops Polyphemus] fed and belked vp againe / His bloody vittels at his mouth, and vttred out amayne / The clottred gobbets mixt with wyne, I [Odysseus] thus ſurmyſde: like lot / Hangs ouer my head now, and I muſt alſo go to pot.

意味（2）

(archaic) At full speed; also, in great haste.

At length the Danes beeing aſſayled on eche ſide, both a front before, and on their backes behinde, oppreſſed as it were wyth multitude, they threwe downe theyr weapons and fled amain.

意味（3）

(Britain, dialectal) Out of control.

The waggonway lay near the Windmill Hills and went down the north side of the hills to the Rivir Tine, and at the Coal steath [= staithe] Mathew Gray lived. I was about hauf way down the bank when thur was two Waggons Coming after me Amain [= broken loose and running away].

意味（4）

(obsolete) Exceedingly; overmuch.

Riches are mine, Fortune is in my hand; / They whom I favour thrive in wealth amain, / While Virtue, Valour, Wiſdom ſit in want.

more amain （ comparative ）

most amain （ superlative ）