プログレッシブ和英中辞典(第4版)の解説
いじける
❶〔おどおどする〕grow timid [nervous]
いじけて隅に入り込んだ
He shrank into the corner.
叱ってばかりでは子供をいじけさせる
You'll 「make children overly nervous [stunt the full development of children's personality] if you keep scolding them.
彼はいじけた字を書く
He has timid [cramped] handwriting.／He writes a timid hand.
❷〔ひねくれる〕become perverse [warped]
若いころ苦労したので彼は心がいじけている
Hardships in his youth warped his personality.
❸〔植物などが〕
車の排気ガスのせいか街道筋の木はみないじけている
The trees along the road all look stunted, perhaps owing to car exhaust.