praying mantis
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praying - mantis -> praying mantis
Myanmar meaning
(n) ရှိခိုးကောင်
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၁။ ~ (to sb) (for sb/ sth) ဆုတောင်းသည်။ They knelt down and prayed. ❍ The priest prayed for the dying man. ❍ They prayed (to God) for an end to their sufferings/ for their sufferings to end. ❍ They prayed that she would recover. ❍ She prayed to be forgiven.
၂။ ~ (for sth) အထူးမျှော်ကိုးသည်။ Our holiday starts tomorrow and we're praying for good weather. ❍ I was praying that nobody would notice my mistake.
၃။ (dated or fml) ကျေးဇူးပြု၍။ And what, pray, would be the point of doing that?
❏ praying mantis n ရှိခိုးကောင်။ ဓားခုတ်ကောင်။
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- pray /preÇ/ v ၁။ ~ (to sb) (for sb/ sth) ဆုတောင်းသည်။ They knelt down and prayed.
- The priest prayed for the dying man.
- They prayed (to God) for an end to their sufferings/ for their sufferings to end.
- They prayed that she would recover.
- She prayed to be forgiven. ၂။ ~ (for sth) အထူးမျှော်ကိုးသည်။ Our holiday starts tomorrow and we're praying for good weather.
- I was praying that nobody would notice my mistake. ၃။ (dated or fml) ကျေးဇူးပြု၍။ And what, pray, would be the point of doing that? ❏ praying mantis n ရှိခိုးကောင်။ ဓားခုတ်ကောင်။
Synonyms
implore, plead, beg, ask, entreat, request, urge, call upon, ache, adjure, answer, appeal, beseech, brace, call up, commune with, contemplate, crave, cross your fingers, cry for, deliberate, hope, hope against hope, importune, invocate, invoke, long, meditate, petition, recite, say, say your prayers, solicit, sue, summon, supplicate, wish, yearn, yen
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