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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar

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clam up

US pronunciation

American soundclam up

clamup

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Clear final sound

clam - up -> clam up

Myanmar meaning

[PHRV ] (infml ) နှုတ်ဆိတ်နေသည်။ ရေငုံနှုတ်ပိတ်နေသည်။

Full entry

clam /klæm/ n

ခုံးကောင်။
clam soup ❍ Whenever I raised the question of his childhood he shut up like a clam and refused to discuss it. ❍ shellfish
v (-mm- ) ❏ clam up [PHRV ] (infml ) နှုတ်ဆိတ်နေသည်။ ရေငုံနှုတ်ပိတ်နေသည်။
He always clams up when we ask him about his family.

More examples

clam /klæm/ n ခုံးကောင်။ clam soup
Whenever I raised the question of his childhood he shut up like a clam and refused to discuss it.
shellfish v ( -mm- ) ❏ clam up [PHRV] ( infml ) နှုတ်ဆိတ်နေသည်။ ရေငုံနှုတ်ပိတ်နေသည်။ He always clams up when we ask him about his family.

Synonyms

cherrystone, choke off, clam up, clammed up, clamming up, close up, closed up, cool it, decrease the volume, decrease volume, dried up, dry up, drying up, dulling, dummied up, dummy up, hold one's tongue, hold tongue, hush one's mouth, keep down, keep it down, littleneck, mollusk, overawe, overawed, pipe down, quahog, quiet down, quieten, say nothing, shush, silence, sit on, sitting on, strike dumb, struck dumb, tongue-tie

Cross references

cherrystone choke off clam up clammed up clamming up close up closed up cool it decrease the volume decrease volume dried up dry up drying up dulling dummied up dummy up hold one's tongue hold tongue hush one's mouth keep down keep it down littleneck mollusk overawe overawed pipe down quahog quiet down

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