dereliction
/dɛrəˈlɪkʃ(ə)n/
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American sound/dɛrəˈlɪkʃ(ə)n/
dɛrəˈlɪkʃən
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- Final -tion sounds like shun
dɛrə - ˈlɪkʃən -> dereliction
Myanmar meaning
(n) စွန့်ပစ်ထား၍ ပျက်စီးနေခြင်း။ တာဝန်ဝတ္တရားကို တမင်ပျက်ကွက်ခြင်း။
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စွန့်ပစ်ထား၍ ပျက်စီးနေသော။
a derelict building. ❍ derelict land.
n အိမ်ခြေရာခြေမဲ့သူ။ ခြေသလုံးအိမ်တိုင်။ အခြေအနေမဲ့။
derelicts living on the streets.
❏ dereliction /derǝ'lÇkʃn/ n
၁။ [U] စွန့်ပစ်ထား၍ ပျက်စီး နေခြင်း။
a house in a state of dereliction.
၂။ [U, C usu sing ] (fml ) တာဝန်ဝတ္တရားကို တမင်ပျက်ကွက်ခြင်း။
Police officers found guilty of a serious dereliction of duty.
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dilapidated, in ruins, neglected, abandoned, ruined, deserted, asleep at switch, asleep at the switch, beggar, behindhand, bum, careless, castaway, castoff, dawdler, delinquent, desolate, dingy, discarded, disregardful, drifter, faded, flat-footed, floater, forsaken, grifter, hobo, irresponsible, lax, lorn, ne'er-do-well, negligent, not on the job, off guard, off-guard, outcast, ownerless, regardless, relinquished, remiss, renegade, run-down, rundown, seedy, shabby, skidrow bum, slack, solitary, stiff, stumblebum, threadbare, tramp, unalert, uncouth, undependable, unready, unreliable, untrustworthy, unwatchful, vagabond, vagrant
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