shame
/ʃeɪm/
- Syllables
- 1 syllable
- Stress
- One strong syllable
- Vowel
- Short i vowel
- Ending
- Final e often stays silent
US voice -> shame
(n) အရှက်
shame /ʃeÇm/ n
၁။ [U] အရှက်။ ရှက်စိတ်။ feel shame at having told a lie ❍ hang one's head in shame ❍ To my shame (ie I feel shame that) I never thanked him for his kindness.
၂။ [U] ရှက်စိတ်။ အရှက်။ How could you do such a thing? Have you no shame? ❍ She is completely without shame.
၃။ [U] အရှက်။ bring shame on sb/oneself.
၄။ a shame [sing] (derog infml ) ဝမ်းနည်းစရာ။ It's a crying shame that we didn't buy the house when we had the money. ❍ What a shame you didn't win. ❍ Isn't it a shame that the rain spoiled our picnic?
v (က) ရှက်သည်။ အရှက်ရသည်။ He was shamed by how much more work the others had done. (ခ) အရှက်ရ စေသည်။ You've shamed your family.
❏ put sb/sth to shame [IDM ] သိမ်ငယ်မိစေသည်။ Your beautiful handwriting puts my untidy scrawl to shame.
❏ shameful /-fl/ adj ရှက်ဖွယ်။ ရှက်စရာ။ shameful conduct/deceit.
❏ shamefully /-fǝli/ adv ရှက်ဖွယ်လိလိ။ ရှက်စရာကောင်း လောက်အောင်။ be shamefully treated. shamefulness n [U]
❏ shame sb into doing sth [PHRV ] အရှက်တရားရပြီး …စေသည်။ shame sb into apologizing.
❏ shameless adj (derog ) အရှက်မရှိ။ အရှက်ကင်းမဲ့သော။ shameless behaviour ❍ act in a shameless way.
❏ shamelessly adv အရှက်မရှိ။ shamelessness n [U]
❏ shame on you [IDM ] ရှက်ပြီးလဲသေဖို့ကောင်းတယ်။ How could you treat her so badly? Shame on you!
❏ shaming adj အရှက်ရသော။ အရှက်ကွဲသော။ The experience was deeply shaming for us all.
- It seems a shame to waste all this food.
- It was a shame that you couldn’t come with us.
- [a great/crying/terrible shame] : It would have been a crying shame if we had lost the game.
- [shame about] : It was a nice idea. Shame about the way it was done.
- He speaks about his affair without shame.
- [bow/hang your head in shame] : The people who let this happen should hang their heads in shame.
- Has he no shame?
- They accused her of bringing shame and disgrace on the family.
- There is no shame in failing.
- [to someone’s shame] : To their shame, they were proved wrong.
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