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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar

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encounter

/ɪnˈkaʊntə/

US pronunciation

American sound/ɪnˈkaʊntə/

ɪnˈkaʊntə

Syllables: 3 syllables
Stress: 2nd syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Final r is pronounced in US English

ɪn - ˈkaʊntə -> encounter

Myanmar meaning

(v) (အသစ်၊ အဆန်းတကြယ်၊ အခက်အခဲ စသည်နှင့်) တွေ့ထိသည်၊ ပက်ပင်းကြုံသည်၊ နဖူးတွေ့ ဒူးတွေ့ တွေ့သည်။ မမျှော်လင့် ဘဲ ဆုံတွေ့သည်၊ ကြုံကြိုက်သည်။ (n) တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း။ ဆုံစည်းခြင်း။ ရင်ဆိုင်တိုက်ပွဲ။

Full entry

encounter /Çn'kaƱntǝ(r)/ v (fml )

၁။ (အသစ်၊ အဆန်းတကြယ်၊ အခက်အခဲ စသည်နှင့်) တွေ့ထိသည်၊ ပက်ပင်းကြုံသည်၊ နဖူးတွေ့ ဒူးတွေ့ တွေ့သည်။
I encountered many problems when I first started this job. ❍ We encountered very little traffic. ❍ I've never encountered his novels before. ❍ When did you first encounter Buddhism?
၂။ မမျှော်လင့် ဘဲ ဆုံတွေ့သည်၊ ကြုံကြိုက်သည်။ He was fascinated by the woman he had encountered in the airport lounge.
n ~ (between A and B); ~ (with sb/sth) တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း။ ဆုံစည်းခြင်း။ ရင်ဆိုင်တိုက်ပွဲ။
the famous encounter between Stanley and Livingstone ❍ Three officers were killed in the encounter. ❍ a brief encounter with an angry client ❍ a sexual encounter.

More examples

I had not seen her since our brief encounter two years before.
[a close encounter] : We had a frighteningly close encounter with a black bear.
Risk of exposure to HIV increases with each casual encounter.
The march ended in a violent encounter with the police.
Their last encounter ended in a draw.
[encounter with] : My earliest encounter with the theatre

Synonyms

meet, come across, bump into, run into, come upon, stumble upon, action, affront, alight upon, appointment, argument, attack, battle, bear, bout, brush, chance meeting, chance upon, clash, clash with, close, collide, collision, combat, concurrence, conflict, confront, confrontation, contend, contend with, contention, contest, cross swords, cross the path, descry, detect, dispute, do battle, do battle with, engage, engagement, espy, experience, face, fall in with, fight, find, flap, fray, front, grapple, grapple with, happen upon, happenstance, hassle, hit upon, interview, meet up with, meeting, quarrel, rendezvous, rub eyeballs, rumpus, run across, run smack into, run-in, scrap, set-to, skirmish, strive, struggle, suffer, sustain, turn up, undergo, velitation, violence

Antonyms

accord, agree, agreement, avoid, avoidance, calm, cancel, disconnect, dodge, evade, evasion, harmony, let go, lose, miss, pass by, peace, refuse, retreat, run away, surrender, truce, yield, yielding

Cross references

meet come across bump into run into come upon stumble upon action affront alight upon appointment argument attack battle bear bout brush chance meeting chance upon clash clash with close collide collision combat concurrence conflict confront confrontation

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