compassionate
/kəmˈpaʃ(ə)nət/
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American sound/kəmˈpaʃ(ə)nət/
kəmˈpaʃənət
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kəm - ˈpaʃənət -> compassionate
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compassion /kǝm'pæʃn/ n [U] ~ (for sb)
အသနား။ ကရုဏာ။ အကြင်နာမေတ္တာ။ စာနာရိုင်းပင်းတတ်မှု။
be filled with compassion ❍ a woman of great compassion ❍ The plight of the refugees arouses our compassion. ❍ Out of (ie Because of) compassion for her terrible suffering they allowed her to stay.
❏ compassionate /kǝm'pæʃǝnǝt/ adj မေတ္တာကရုဏာ တရား ကြီးမားသော။ အကြင်နာပိုသော။
They allowed her to stay on compassionate grounds (ie out of compassion). compassionately adv
❏ compassionate leave n [U] (Brit ) သာရေးနာရေးခွင့်။ ကိုယ်ရေးကိုယ်တာခွင့်။
She was allowed compassionate leave from work to attend her father's funeral.
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sympathy, empathy, concern, kindness, consideration, care, benevolence, charity, clemency, commiseration, compunction, condolence, fellow feeling, grace, heart, humaneness, humanity, kindheartedness, lenity, mercy, softheartedness, softness, sorrow, tender feeling, tenderheartedness, tenderness, yearning
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