sadden
/ˈsad(ə)n/
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sad - den -> sadden
(v.t & v.i) ဝမ်းနည်းပူဆွေးသည်။ကြေကွဲစေသည်။စိတ်ညှိုးငယ်စေသည်။ဝမ်းနည်းစေသည်။တည်မြဲစေသည်။
Sad /sæd/ adj (-dder , -ddest )
၁။ ဝမ်းနည်းသော။ a sad look /event/ story ❍ John is sad because his dog has died. ❍ I'm sad you're leaving. ❍ It was a sad day for us all when the village school closed down. ❍ Why is she looking so sad? ❍ It is sad that he did not live to see his book published. ❍ The divorce left him sadder but wiser.
၂။ ဝမ်းနည်းဖွယ်ရာ။ စိတ်မကောင်းစရာ။ a sad state of affairs ❍ a sad case of cruelty ❍ It's a sad fact that many of those who die in road accidents are under 25.
၃။ ဝမ်းနည်းဖွယ်ရာ။ စိတ်မကောင်းစရာ။ a sad fate ❍ This once beautiful ship is in a sad condition now.
❏ sadden /'sædn/ v (esp passive) ဝမ်းနည်းစေသည်။ It saddens me to see all their efforts wasted. ❍ We were all saddened by her death.
❏ sadly adv
၁။ ဝမ်းနည်းစရာကတော့။ Sadly, we have no more money. ❍ HOPEFUL
၂။ ဆိုးဆိုးရွားရွား။ များစွာ။ a sadly neglected garden ❍ They had hoped to win and were sadly disappointed.
၃။ ဝမ်းပန်းတနည်း။ She looked at him sadly.
❏ sadness n
၁။ [U] ဝမ်းနည်းခြင်း။ The occasion was tinged with sadness.
၂။ [C usu pl ] ဝမ်းနည်းစရာ။ It was a great sadness to him that he never had children.
❏ sad to say [IDM ] ဝမ်းနည်းဖွယ်ရာကောင်းသည်မှာ။ ဝမ်းနည်းစရာကတော့။ Sad to say, the house has now been demolished.
- Reading her letter made us all feel a little sad.
- [sad about] : I felt sad about leaving him, but I had no choice.
- [be sad to see/hear something] : I was very sad to hear that your mother had died.
- ‘I’m OK, ’ she said in a sad voice.
- Sad eyes
- It was a sad day when we sold our home.
- Dad waited until after dinner to tell us the sad news.
- The only sad thing was that Jim couldn’t come to the party.
- The sad truth is that many children never learn to read.
- [it is sad that] : I think it’s sad that children spend so much time watching television.
- [something is a sad reflection on something/someone] : Teachers’ salaries are a sad reflection on our commitment to educating children.
- [a sad state of affairs] : It’s a sad state of affairs when people can’t be bothered to vote any more.
- I’m just one of those sad people who sit at home reading on Saturday night.
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