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Friday, December 30, 2022

extravagantly

 

ex·trav·a·gant·ly
[ikˈstravəɡəntlē]
ADVERB
  1. with a lack of restraint in spending money or using resources:
    "he lived extravagantly and fell deeply into debt"
    • in an excessive or elaborate way:
      "extravagantly decorated ceilings painted with stars and angels"
    • to a large degree and with extreme feeling:
      "as a child, Mozart was extravagantly praised" · "he was extravagantly admired for his versatilit

Friday, September 9, 2022

Bleak

 bleak /bliːk/ adj (-er-est)

၁။ (က(ကွင်း)ပြောင်။ (တောင်)ကတုံးစသည် bleak hills/mountains/moors.

((ရာသီဥတုအလွန်အေး၍ ဆိုးဝါးသော။ bleakwinter day.

၂။ (အခြေ အနေ) မျှော်လင့်အားရဖွယ် မရှိသော။ စိတ်ဓာတ်ကျစရာ bleak outlook/prospect m Thefuture looks bleakbleakly adv: bleakly litcorridors မှောင်ကုပ်ကုပ်စင်္ကြံ m a bleakly realistic account of urban poverty စိတ်ဓာတ်ကျ စရာကောင်းလောက်အောင် သဘာဝကျကျ ဖော်ပြထားသော မြို့ပြဆင်းရဲမွဲတေပုံ။m There seems no hope, shesaid bleakly. bleakness [U]

Synonyms
desolateausteredrearychillycoldgrimbareblankburned, cleared, desertdeserted, exposed, flatgauntopenrawstripped, unsheltered, weather-beatenwild, bombed, blighted, bulldozed, deforested, scorched, unpopulated, windsweptunwelcomingmiserabledrabdepressinguninvitinglonelyisolateddismalforlorndejecteddishearteneddownheartedhopelesssorrowful, sad, despairingdespondentdourfunereal, unpromising, gloomydoubtfulfutileharshwintrycheerlessbitterchillingbiting

Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Slashes

Tesla slashes delivery waiting time for some model Ys in china .

slash ( cut ) 


slash cost 

slash price 

slash fares

Sunday, March 20, 2022

consoling

 

consoling serving to comfort someone at a time of grief or disappointment.

Friday, February 25, 2022

dwindling

 

What does dwindling mean?
: to become steadily less : shrink Their savings dwindled to nothing. a dwindling population. transitive verb. : to make steadily less.

Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Propped

 


propped



prop1 /prɒp/ n

၁။ ကျား။ ဒေါက်။ ဒေါက်တိုင်။ Props were used toprevent the roof collapsing. See also PIT-PROP 

၂။ အမှီ He doesn't think of her as a personjustas an emotional prop

၃။ ရတ္ဂ်ဘီဘောလုံးကစားရာတွင် နှစ်သင်း ရင်ဆိုင်ထားစဉ် ရှေ့တန်း ဘယ်တောင်ပံ (သို့) ညာတောင်ပံမှ ကစားသူ။

v (-pp-

(က) ထောက်ထားသည်။ မှီနေသည်။ Her patient laypropped on the pillows. m He used a box to propthe door openajar.

() ~ sb/ sth (upagainst sth မှီထားသည်။ a bicycle propped against the wall He proppedhis guitar against a speaker.

prop sth up [PHRV

၁။ ဒေါက်ထောက်ပေးသည်။ (မှီနိုင်ရန်) ထောက်ကန်ပေးသည်။ ထောက်ကန်ထားသည်။ The roof will haveto be propped up while repairs are carried out. m A five-month-old baby cannot sit unaided she hasto be propped up with pillowsHe proppedhimself up on one elbow

၂။ (often derog[U] ကျားကန်ထားသည်။ Theindustry is propped up by the government.

prop -word (grammarရှေ့အဆိုကိုမှီး၍ ဆိုခဲ့ ပြီးသော နာမ်၏နေရာတွင် အစားထိုးသုံးသော one (သို့)ones။ အမှီးစကားလုံး။ (သာဓက-Which piece wouldyou like? I'd like the bigger one.


prop2 /prɒp/ (also fml property(usu pl

ဇာတ်ဝင်ပစ္စည်း အသုံးအဆောင်။ stage props personal props.


prop

 verb
proppedpropping

Definition of prop (Entry 2 of 6)

transitive verb

1ato support by placing something under or againstoften used with up
bto support by placing against something
2SUSTAINSTRENGTHEN  often used with upa government propped up by the military

prop

 noun (2)

Definition of prop (Entry 3 of 6)

1PROPERTY sense 3stage props
2something used in creating or enhancing a desired effectbuy books … as cultural propsbecause they want to appear literate— John Powers

prop

 noun (3)

Definition of prop (Entry 4 of 6)

Definition of prop (Entry 5 of 6)

Definition of prop- (Entry 6 of 6)

related to propionic acidpropanepropyl

Examples of prop in a Sentence

Verb She propped the rake against a tree.  We propped the shed's roof with poles.
Synonyms
mainstaybuttresscolumntrussassistancestanchionstayunderpinningshoreaidpoststrutbrace, strengthener, legcrutchpilesupport, piling, sustainupholdbolsterbuoy, hold up, prop up
Antonyms