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動詞

euphemize (三人称単数 現在形 euphemizes, 現在分詞 euphemizing, 過去形および過去分詞形 euphemized)

1. (intransitive) To utter one or more euphemisms; to speak euphemistically.
   • 1999, A. J. Meier, "When Is a Woman a Lady?" American Speech, vol. 74, no. 1, p. 63:

     There seems to be some support here for the claim that the older group felt a greater need to euphemize in the two contexts in question.

2. (transitive) To describe in euphemistic terms.
   • 1857, Charles Kingsley, chapter 2, in Two Years Ago:

     The pools in general are bedded with black mud, and creamed over with oily flakes which may proceed from the tar on the vessels' sides, and may also from "decomposing animal matter," as we euphemise it now-a-days.

派生語

• euphemizer/euphemiser
• euphemization/euphemisation

参照

• euphemize at OneLook Dictionary Search