sheltered

/ˈʃɛltəd/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈʃɛltəd/

sheltered

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Past ending sound

shel - te - red -> sheltered

Myanmar meaning

(v[pt]) ကာရံခဲ့ (v[pp]) ကာရံခဲ့ပြီး

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shelter /'ʃeltǝ(r)/ n

၁။ [U] ~ (from sth) အရိပ်အာဝါသ။ Human beings need food, shelter and warmth. ❍ take shelter from the rain ❍ people desperately seeking shelter from the gunfire ❍ She gave shelter to an escaped prisoner.
၂။ [C] (often in compounds) (က) တဲ၊ အိမ်၊ အေးကျင်း စသော အဆောက်အအုံ။ They built a rough shelter from old pieces of wood and cardboard. ❍ a bike shelter (eg at a school, for pupils to leave their bicycles in) ❍ an air-raid/a fallout shelter. See also BUS SHELTER
(ခ) အိုးမဲ့အိမ်မဲ့၊ ဒုက္ခရောက်သူ လူ၊ တိရစ္ဆာန်တို့ ခိုနားရန် ကုသိုလ်ဖြစ်ရိပ်သာ၊ ဂေဟာ စသည်။ a night shelter for the homeless ❍ an animal shelter.
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၁။ ~ sb/sth (from sth/sb ) (က) ကာသည်။ ကွယ်သည်။ ခိုလှုံခွင့်ပေးသည်။ The valley is sheltered by the mountains to the north. ❍ shelter an escaped prisoner in one's home ❍ trees that shelter a house from the wind ❍ The wall sheltered the soldiers from the gunfire.
(ခ) ကာသည်။ ကွယ်သည်။ အကာအကွယ်ပေးသည်။ He is trying to shelter his boss from criticism. ❍ Is our country's industry sheltered from foreign competition?
၂။ ~ (from sth) ခိုသည်။ ခိုလှုံသည်။ shelter under the trees/behind a wall ❍ shelter from the rain ❍ political refugees sheltering in the US embassy.
❏ sheltered adj
၁။ အရိပ်အာဝါသကောင်းသော။ find a sheltered spot for a picnic ❍ a sheltered region.
၂။ (sometimes derog ) ခြေမွေးမီးမလောင် လက်မွေးမီးမလောင်။ ရွှေလိုဦးထားသော။ ရင်အုပ်မကွာ မွေးမြူသော။ He had a sheltered life/childhood.
၃။ သက်ကြီးရွယ်အို၊ မစွမ်းမသန်သူ စသည်တို့ကို စောင့်ရှောက်ထားသော (ရိပ်သာ)။ sheltered housing/accommodation for the elderly/disabled.

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Synonyms

protection, cover, refuge, haven, sanctuary, asylum, safe haven, a roof over your head, accommodations, apartment, cave, chamber, co-op, conceal, condo, cover up, covert, crib, defend, defense, den, digs, dwelling, enclose, give refuge, guard, guardian, habitat, harbor, harborage, hermitage, hide, hideaway, hideout, hole in the wall, home, homeplate, house, housing, hut, joint, living quarters, lodge, lodging, pad, pen, port, preserve, protect, protector, provide safety, quarterage, rack, retirement, retreat, roof, roof over head, roost, safeguard, safety, screen, secure, security, shack, shade, shadow, shed, shield, somewhere to live, somewhere to stay, surround, take care of, take cover, take in, take refuge, take shelter, tent, tower, turf, umbrella, ward, watch over

Antonyms

abandon, brightness, disregard, endanger, forget, harm, hurt, ignore, injure, lay bare, lay open, let go, let out, light, open, reveal, turn away, uncover

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