English Dictionary

wimp out

動詞

軽蔑的 くだけた表現

(informal, derogatory) To back out of something because of cowardice.

日本語の意味

臆病なために、物事から手を引く、あるいは逃げること。 / 臆病さが原因で、約束や責任から逃れること。

He promised he'd confront the bully, but when the time came he began to wimp out.

彼はいじめっ子に立ち向かうと約束したが、いざその時になると怖気づいて逃げてしまった。

意味（1）

(informal, derogatory) To back out of something because of cowardice.

Meanwhile, the West Bank Palestinian leaders are busy publicly collecting food and blankets to help all those Palestinian civilians brutalized by the Israeli incursion into Gaza, while privately demanding to know from senior Israeli officials why they wimped out and didn’t wipe Hamas in Gaza off the face of earth — casualties be damned.

wimps out （ present singular third-person ）

wimping out （ participle present ）

wimped out （ participle past ）

wimped out （ past ）