lame
/leɪm/
US pronunciation
American sound/leɪm/
lame
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- Short i vowel
- Ending
- Final e often stays silent
US voice -> lame
Myanmar meaning
(adj) ကိုယ်လက်အင်္ဂါ၊ခြေလက်-မသန်စွမ်းသော-ဆွံ့သော-ကျိုးသော-ဆာသော။ထော့ကျိုးဖြစ်သော။
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၁။ ခြေကျိုးနေသော။ ခြေဆာနေသော။
He is lame in the left leg. ❍ The horse went lame.
၂။ ကျေနပ်ဖွယ်မရှိသော။ လက်ခံနိုင်ဖွယ် မရှိသော။ ညံ့သော။
That was a pretty lame joke. ဒီပြက်လုံးကတော့ ခပ်ညံ့ညံ့ ပြက်လုံးပဲ။
❏ lame duck n
၁။ မစွံသောသူ၊ အဖွဲ့အစည်း။ The government should not waste money supporting lame ducks.
၂။ (esp US ) မကြာမီ ပြုတ်ရန်သာရှိသော နိုင်ငံရေး သမား။ a lame duck President.
❏ lamely adv မဝံ့မရဲ။ မရဲတရဲ။<‘what's next?'="" she="" asked="" lamely.="">lameness n [U]
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anesthetize, anesthetized, anesthetizing, batter, be numb, bring to grinding halt, bruised, clip wings, contuse, contused, cripple, cut to pieces, deformed, disabled, disenable, dislimb, faltering, faulty, feeble, flabby, flimsy, game, gimp, gimpy, hacked, hacking, halt, hamstring, handicapped, hash up, hobbling, hogtie, inadequate, incapacitate, ineffective, inefficient, insufficient, limping, maim, make inert, make nerveless, mutilate, pained, palsy, paralyze, poor, put out of commission, raw, sidelined, sidelining, sore, stiff, stop dead, take out, taking out, thin, unconvincing, unpersuasive, unpleasing, unsatisfactory, unstrengthen, unsuitable, weak
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