英和和英

読み方 ちぢめる

他動詞

To contract （a muscle）; to shorten （a course）; to reduce （the term）; to abridge （a book）; to condense （a sentence）; to cut down （the holidays）; to draw in （one's legs, etc.）

用例

• あの人は人の悪口を言っておいてくびを縮める癖がある
  He has a way of drawing in his head after abusing a man.

• 帆を縮める
  to shorten sail
• 文章を縮める
  to abridge a composition―（文法の一文なら）―condense a sentence
• 修業年限を縮める
  to shorten the term of study―reduce the term of study
• 命を縮める
  to shorten one's life
• あんな思いをすると寿命を縮める
  Such an experience will shorten one's natural term of existence.
• あの夜の心配で五六年は寿命を縮めている
  That anxious night has shortened my natural term of existence by five or six years.
• 君は（そんな無理をすると）寿命を縮めるぞ
  You are driving a nail into your coffin―adding a nail to your coffin.
• 苦労は寿命を縮める【イディオム・格言的】
  “Care preys upon life”
  “Care is a foe to life”
  “Care killed the cat.”
• 貴様は（俺にこんな苦労をかけて）親の寿命を縮める奴だ
  You will bring yours father's gray hairs to the grave.