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shadows

/ˈʃadəʊ/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈʃadəʊ/
shadows
Syllables
2 syllables
Stress
1st syllable stress
Vowel
Schwa vowel
Ending
Clear final sound

sha - dows -> shadows

Myanmar meaning

(n[pl]) အရိပ်များ

Full entry

shadow /'ʃædǝƱ/ n

၁။ (က) [C] အရိပ်။ The chair cast a shadow on the wall. ❍ The shadows lengthened as the sun went down. ❍ (fig ) The bad news cast a shadow on/over our meeting (ie made us sad). ❍ SHADE (ခ) [U] (also shadows [pl]) အရိပ်။ မှောင်ရိပ်။ Her face was in deep shadow. ❍ a figure standing in the shadows.
၂။ [C] မျက်တွင်းကျခြင်း။ have shadows under the eyes (eg because of illness or lack of sleep).
၃။ [C] (က) အရိပ်ပမာ တကောက်ကောက်ပါသူ၊ တိရစ္ဆာန်။ အမြီး။ The dog became his shadow and never left his side.
(ခ) နောက်ယောင်ခံလိုက်သူ။ အမြီး။
၄။ [sing] ~ of sth (usu in negative sentences) အရိပ်အငွေ့။ There is not a shadow of (a) doubt that he is guilty.
၅။ [C] အရိပ်။ တံလျှပ်။ You can't spend your life chasing shadows.
၆။ [sing] the ~ of sb/sth အရိပ်အယောင်။ အရိပ်အခြည်။ လောင်းရိပ်။ the shadow of the approaching catastrophe ❍ For years he lived in the shadow of his famous mother. See also EYE-SHADOW, FIVE O'CLOCK SHADOW
v
၁။ နောက်ယောင်ခံလိုက်သည်။ တကောက်ကောက်လိုက်သည်။ He was shadowed for a week by the secret police.
၂။ ကာထားသည်။ ဆောင်းထားသည်။ Her face was shadowed by a wide-brimmed hat. See also OVERSHADOW
adj (Brit politics ) (လက်ရှိအာဏာရဝန်ကြီး၊ အစိုးရအဖွဲ့နှင့် ဖက်ပြိုင်လျာထားသော အတိုက်အခံ နိုင်ငံရေးပါတီမှ) နောက်ယောင် ခံ(ဝန်ကြီး၊ အစိုးရအဖွဲ့)။ the Shadow Cabinet ❍ the Shadow Foreign Secretary.
❏ shadow-box v လက်ဝှေ့ရေးပြသည်၊ ကျင့်သည်။ shadow-boxing n [U]
❏ a shadow of one's/its former self [IDM ] ချိုနှင့်သားရေ သာကျန်သည့်အဖြစ်။ She used to be a great player, but now she's a mere shadow of her former self.
❏ shadowy adj
၁။ အရိပ်ရသော။ အရိပ်ကောင်းသော။ the cool, shadowy interior of the church ❍ a shadowy corner.
၂။ ရိုးတိုးရိပ်တိပ်။ မသဲ မကွဲ ။ a shadowy figure glimpsed in the twilight.
၃။ လျှို့ဝှက်သိုသိပ်သော။ the shadowy world of the secret service.

More examples
  • The kids jumped out of the shadows, trying to scare us.
  • [in shadow] : Even on a bright day, the room was in shadow.
  • The trees cast long, scary shadows in the evening light.
  • The dogs are always trying to chase their own shadows.
  • [in the shadow of something] : She stood outside in the shadow of a large pine tree.
Synonyms
shade, silhouette, outline, dark, darkness, gloom, gloominess, dusk, dimness, adumbrate, adumbration, all skin and bones, alter ego, anorectic, apparition, beanstalk, becloud, bedim, blot out, breath, broomstick, cast a shadow, cloud, constant companion, cover, darken, dim, dog, doppelgänger, double, eclipse, featherweight, fleshless, flicker, follow, follow secretly, follower, ghost, go after, gray, gumshoe, haze, hint, intimation, inumbrate, keep in sight, lank, lean, make dark, malnourished, memento, no fat, obscuration, obscure, obscurity, observe, other self, overcast, overcloud, overhang, overshadow, penumbra, phantom, private detective, private eye, private investigator, protection, pursue, pursuer, reedy, relic, scraggy, screen, shelter, shield, skin and bones, sleuth, slight, smack, spare, specter, spirit, spy on, stalk, stalker, stalky, sticker, stilt, stringbean, suggestion, suspicion, sylphlike, tag, tail, thin, thin as a rail, thin as rail, tincture, tinge, touch, trace, track, tracker, trail, twiggy, twiglike, umbra, umbrage, undernourished, underweight, veil, vestige, watch, weedy, wraith
Antonyms
brighten, brightness, clear up, ignore, information, light, lighten, lot, open, reveal, run away, uncover
Cross references
shadesilhouetteoutlinedarkdarknessgloomgloominessduskdimnessadumbrateadumbrationall skin and bonesalter egoanorecticapparitionbeanstalkbecloudbedimblot outbreathbroomstickcast a shadowcloudconstant companioncoverdarkendimdog
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