dead loss

/ˌdɛd ˈlɒs/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˌdɛd ˈlɒs/

ˌdɛdˈlɒs

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 2nd syllable stress
Vowel: IPA vowel pattern
Ending: Clear final sound

ˌdɛd - ˈlɒs -> dead loss

Myanmar meaning

အသုံးမကျသူ၊ အရာဝတ္တု။

Full entry

dead /ded/ adj

၁။ (က) အသေ။ အသက်မရှိတော့သော။ အနွမ်း။ a dead person/animal ❍ dead flowers/cells ❍ He was shot dead by masked gunmen. ❍ The tiger fell dead.
(ခ) သက်မဲ့(အရာဝတ္ထု)။ dead matter (eg rock) ❍ a dead planet (ie one with no life on it).
၂။ (infml ) သေလုအောင်မောပန်း သော။ သေရုပ်ပေါက်နေသော။
You look completely dead. Are you all right?
၃။ (က) ထုံကျဉ် [သော]။ I couldn't unlock the door because my fingers had gone dead.
(ခ) ~ to sth ခံစားမှုကင်းသော။
He was dead to all feelings of pity.
၄။ ပျက်နေသော။ a dead match (ie one that has been struck) ❍ a dead battery ❍ The telephone went dead (ie produced no more sounds).
၅။ ပြီးဆုံးသွားသော။ ကုန်ဆုံးသွားသော။ မသုံးတော့သော။
This debate is now dead. ❍ My love for him is dead. ❍ a dead language (eg. Latin).
၆။ (က) (infml ) ပျင်းရိဖွယ် ကောင်းသော။ ငြီးငွေ့ဖွယ် ကောင်းသော။
What a dead place this is! ❍ The acting was pretty dead.
(ခ) ခြောက်ကပ်တိတ်ဆိတ်နေသော။
The town is dead now the factory has closed. ❍ in the dead hours of the night.
၇။ လုံးလုံးလျားလျား။ အကြွင်းမဲ့။ သေချာ ပေါက်။ တည့်တည့်။ dead calm/silence ❍ come to a dead stop ❍ dead centre ❍ He's a dead cert/ certainty for the 100 metres.
၈။ (က) ခြောက်ကပ်သော။ a dead voice.
(ခ) ထိုင်းမှိုင်းသော။ The walls were a dead brown colour.
၉။ (sports ) (က) ကစားကွင်း ပြင်ဘက်ရောက်သော (ဘောလုံး)။
(ခ) (esp Brit ) ရေတင်၍ ဘောလုံးကောင်းစွာ မလိမ့်နိုင်သော။
Rain had made the pitch rather dead.
adv
၁။ လုံးဝ။ လုံးလုံးလျားလျား။ အလွန့်အလွန်။ တအား။ တည့်တည့်။ ကွက်တိ။ အပြတ်။ dead tired/drunk ❍ dead sure/certain ❍ dead level/straight ❍ You're dead right! ❍ The train was dead on time. ❍ The sight made him stop dead (in his tracks). (မြင်လိုက်ရသော) မြင်ကွင်းက သူ့ကို ကြက်သေသေသွားစေသည်။ ❍ dead slow (ie as slowly as possible) ❍ dead ahead (ie directly ahead) ❍ be dead against (ie absolutely opposed to) sth ❍ She's dead set on getting (ie determined to get) this new job.
၂။ (infml ) အလွန်။ သိပ်။ The instructions are dead easy to follow.
n the dead လူသေ။ လူသေကောင်။ We carried the dead and (the) wounded off the battlefield. ❍ She was screaming enough to wake the dead.
❏ be a dead ringer for sb [IDM ] (sl ) တထေရာတည်း တူသည်။ She is a dead ringer for a girl I used to know.
❏ be the dead spit of sb [IDM ] (Brit infml ) ချွတ်စွပ်တူ သည်။
❏ cut sb dead [IDM ] မမြင်ဟန်ဆောင်သည်။ နှုတ်မဆက်ဘဲ နေသည်။
❏ (as) dead as a/the dodo [IDM ] (infml ) စင်းစင်းသေ သော။ Last year's plans to reform the company are now as dead as the dodo.
❏ (as) dead as a doornail [IDM ] (infml ) လူသေကောင်လို။ It lay there with its eyes closed, dead as a doornail.
❏ dead-beat n (infml )
၁။ ဆင်းရဲလွန်း၍ ဘဝကို လက်မြှောက် အရှုံးပေးထားသူ။
၂။ (US ) ငြီးငွေ့စရာ ကောင်းသောသူ။
❏ dead beat adj (infml ) ခြေကုန်လက်ပန်းကျသော။ You look dead beat.
❏ a dead duck [IDM ] (infml ) အဖြစ်မရှိသည့်အရာ။ The plan is a dead duck: there's no money.
❏ dead end n
၁။ တစ်ဖက်ပိတ်လမ်း။ The first street we tried was a dead end.
၂။ (လုပ်ငန်း၊ အကြံအစည် စသည်) လမ်းဆုံး။ be at/come to a dead end ❍ We had reached a dead end in our research.
❏ a dead end job/career တက်လမ်းမရှိသော၊ ပိတ်နေသော အလုပ်။
❏ the dead hand of sth [IDM ] မလွန့်သာအောင် ချုပ်ကိုင်မှု။ delayed by the dead hand of bureaucracy.
❏ dead heat n ပြိုင်တူပန်းဝင်ခြင်း။ ဒက်ထိဝင်ခြင်း။
❏ dead letter n (usu sing ) ၁။ လိပ်စာရှင်ရှာမတွေ့၊ ပြန်ပို့ ရန် လိပ်စာလည်းမပါ၍ စာသေရုံးတွင် သိမ်းဆည်းထားသောစာ။ စာသေ။ Dead letter office.
၂။ သုံးမရသော၊ ဘေးချိတ်ထား သော ဥပဒေ၊ ကျင့်ထုံး။ The treaty turned out to be a dead letter from the start.
❏ dead loss n (usu sing ) (infml )
၁။ လျော်ကြေးမရသော ပျက်စီးဆုံးရှုံးမှု။
၂။ မစွံသောသူ။ အသုံးမကျ၊ သုံးမရသူ။ He was a very creative designer but as a manager he's a dead loss.
❏ dead to the world [IDM ] ကုလားသေကုလားမော။
❏ dead weight n (usu sing ) အလွန်လေးလံသောဝန်။ ဝန်ထုပ် ဝန်ပိုး။ The drunken man was a dead weight in my arms. ❍ (fig ) cast off the dead weight of outmoded beliefs.
❏ dead wood n [U] အသုံးမကျသောသူ၊ အရာ။ ဝါးဆွေး။ There is too much dead wood among the teaching staff. ❍ The new manager wants to cut out the dead wood and streamline production.
❏ in the/at dead of night [IDM ] အကာလ။ ညဉ့်နက် သန်းခေါင်။ လူခြေတိတ်။ They escaped at dead of night, when the guards were asleep.
❏ in the dead of winter [IDM ] ဆောင်းရာသီ၏ အချမ်းဆုံး အချိန်ကာလ။
❏ over my dead body [IDM ] (ပြင်းပြင်းထန်ထန် ကန့်ကွက်မှု ကို ဖော်ပြသောစကား)။ ငါသေမှလုပ်။ They'll demolish this house over my dead body. ❍ ‘I'm inviting my mother to stay. ’‘Over my dead body!’
❏ wouldn't be seen dead in, at, with, etc sth/doing sth [IDM ] (infml ) သေတောင်မလုပ်ဘူး၊ မဝတ်ဘူး (စသည့် ငြင်းဆန်ချက်)။ I wouldn't be seen dead in a dress like that.

More examples

The police don’t know whether she’s alive or dead.
He is grieving for his dead father.
I raked up the dead leaves.
[a dead body] : Rescue workers are still pulling dead bodies out of the rubble.
[leave someone dead] : The shootings left 14 people dead.
[leave someone for dead] : He was beaten and left for dead by a gang of teenagers.
[be feared/presumed dead] : Three people are still missing, presumed dead.
[clinically dead] : Doctors pronounced him clinically dead two days later.
[more dead than alive] : They staggered down the mountain, more dead than alive.
[dead and gone] : All of that generation are now dead and gone.
[long dead] : By the time I had my children, Grandma was long dead.
[the dead and injured] : Fifteen of her relatives were among the dead and injured.
[the dead and dying] : The bridge was soon blocked with the dead and dying.
[bury the/your dead] : The people of the town now want to be left alone to bury their dead.
The battery was completely dead.
[go dead] : The phone suddenly went dead.
The street seems dead without all the bustle of the children.
Winter is traditionally a dead time of year in the fashion business.
[be far from dead] : Eleven minutes of this game remaining, and it’s far from dead!
The idea of self-government for the area is now effectively dead.
Feminism is not dead.
[be dead and buried] : A government spokesman acknowledged that the peace process is dead and buried.
You kids seem half dead!
[dead on your feet] : By the time we had finished we were all dead on our feet.

Synonyms

deceased, departed, lifeless, absolute, absolutely, anesthetized, apathetic, asleep, barren, benumbed, bereft of life, blank, bloodless, bloody, boring, bought the farm, breathless, buried, bygone, cadaverous, callous, casualty, checked out, cold, complete, completely, cut off, deadened, deadly, death toll, defunct, direct, directly, done for, done with, down, downright, due, dull, empty, ended, entire, entirely, erased, exactly, exhausted, expired, extinct, final, finished, flat, frigid, frozen, glazed, gone, gone to meet maker, gone to reward, inactive, inanimate, indifferent, inert, inoperable, inoperative, insensitive, insipid, late, liquidated, lost, lukewarm, mortified, no more, not existing, not working, numb, numbed, obsolete, offed, out of one's misery, out-and-out, outright, over, paralyzed, passed away, passed on, perfect, perished, pushing up daisies, quiet, reposing, resting in peace, right, senseless, silent, spent, spiritless, stagnant, stale, sterile, stiff, still, straight, straightly, sufferer, sure, tasteless, thorough, tired, torpid, total, totally, unanimated, unconditional, undeviatingly, unemployed, unfeeling, uninteresting, unmitigated, unprofitable, unqualified, unresponsive, useless, utter, vanished, vapid, wasted, wearied, whole, wholly, wooden, worn, worn out

Antonyms

active, alive, animate, animated, being, broken, continuing, current, enduring, exciting, existent, existing, flawed, fresh, imperfect, incomplete, incompletely, indirectly, interested, invigorated, limited, live, lively, living, operative, part, partial, refreshed, responsive, saved, sensitive, spirited, subsisting, unfinished, warm, working