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grate

/ɡreɪt/

US pronunciation
American sound/ɡreɪt/
grate
Syllables
1 syllable
Stress
One strong syllable
Vowel
Short i vowel
Ending
Final e often stays silent

US voice -> grate

Myanmar meaning

(n) မီးခံသံဘောင်။ (v) သခွားသီး၊အုန်းသီးစသည်ကိုခြစ်ခုံတွင်ခြစ်သည်။ ပွတ်တိုက်မိခြင်းဖြင့်အသံကျယ်လောင်စွာမြည်သည်။နားမခံသာဖြစ်စေသည်။

Full entry

grate1 / greÇt / n

မီးခံသံဘောင်။ a fire burning in the grate.

grate2 / greÇt / v

၁။ ~ sth (into sth) (သခွားသီး၊ အုန်း သီးစသည်ကို ခြစ်ခုံတွင်) ခြစ်သည်။ Grate the carrot finely/ into small pieces. ❍ grated cheese/ lemon rind ❍ Grate the nutmeg into the mixture/ over the pudding.
၂။ (က) ပွတ်တိုက်မိခြင်းဖြင့် အသံကျယ်လောင်စွာ မြည်သည်။ The hinges grated as the gate swung back. ❍ The wheels grated against/ on the edge of the pavement. (ခ) ~ (on sb/ sth) နားမခံသာဖြစ်စေသည်။ His whining voice grates on my ears/ nerves. ❍ It's her ingratitude that grates on me.
❏ grater n ခြစ်ခုံ။ a cheese grater.
❏ grating adj နားမခံသာဖြစ်စေသော။ နားကလောသော။ her grating voice.

More examples
  • Grated cheese
  • [grate against/on] : Her nails grated against the wall.
  • What really grates is her know-all attitude.
  • [grate on] : His intense stare began to grate on her nerves.
Synonyms
annoy, irritate, aggravate, exasperate, peeve, vex, abrade, bark, bray, burn, chafe, file, fray, fret, gall, get on one's nerves, gravel, grid, grill, grille, grind, grind down, irk, lattice, mince, nettle, pierced screen, pique, pound, provoke, pulverize, rankle, rasp, raze, rile, rub, rub the wrong way, scrape, scratch, screen, scuff, shred, skin, trellis, triturate, vent
Antonyms
aid, appease, build, calm, comfort, construct, delight, help, make happy, mollify, placate, please, soothe
Cross references
annoyirritateaggravateexasperatepeevevexabradebarkbrayburnchafefilefrayfretgallget on one's nervesgravelgridgrillgrillegrindgrind downirklatticemincenettlepierced screenpique
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