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spur

/spəː/

US pronunciation
American sound/spəː/
spur
Syllables
1 syllable
Stress
One strong syllable
Vowel
Schwa vowel
Ending
Final r is pronounced in US English

US voice -> spur

Myanmar meaning

(n) မြင်းစီးသူများ၏ ဖနှောင့်တွင်တပ်ဆင်သည့် မြင်းအသွားမြန်စေရန် ဝမ်းကိုခတ်သည့် ဆူးငယ်ဘီး။ တိုက်တွန်းချက်။ လှုံ့ဆော်ချက်။ နှိုးဆော်အားပေးခြင်း။

Full entry

spur /spɜ:(r) / n

၁။ မြင်းနှင်ရန် စီးသူဖနောင့်တွင် တပ်သည့် သံဆူး။ ဖနောင့်သံဆူး။ a pair of spurs.
၂။ (usu sing ) ~ (to sth) ပိုမိုကြိုးပမ်းရန် စေ့ဆော်မှု၊ တွန်းအား။ the spur of poverty ❍ a spur to greater efficiency.
၃။ တောင်စွယ်။
၄။ (မီးရထား၊ ကားလမ်း) လမ်းခွဲ။ a spur road.
၅။ ကြက်ဖ၏ အတက်။ ကြက်တက်။
v (-rr- ) ~ sb/sth (to/on to sth ); ~ sb/sth (on ) စေ့ဆော်သည်။ လှုံ့ဆော်သည်။ မာန်တင်းပေးသည်။ Her magnificent goal spurred the whole team (on) to victory. ❍ He was spurred on by fierce ambition. ❍ Failure spurred her to try harder.
❏ on the spur of the moment [IDM ] စိတ်ကူးရသည်နှင့် ကောက်ကာငင်ကာ။ I bought the house on the spur of the moment.
❏ a spur-of-the-moment idea [IDM ] ရုတ်တရက် ခေါင်းထဲဝင်လာသော စိတ်ကူး၊ အကြံ။

More examples
  • The news was a spur to the government to cut income tax.
Synonyms
urge, encourage, incite, prompt, stimulate, goad, impel, drive, prod, provoke, spur on, activation, actuation, animate, arouse, awaken, barb, branch, catalyst, countenance, drive on, edge, egg on, excitant, exhort, favor, fillip, fire up, goose, hasten, hurry up, impetus, impulse, incentive, incitation, incitement, inducement, instigate, key up, limb, motivation, motive, mountainside, needle, offshoot, outcrop, outgrowth, point, press, press forward, prick, projection, propel, provocation, push, put up to, rally, ridge, rouse, rush, saddle, shoot, sic, spark, speed, speed up, spike, spine, stimulant, stimulus, stir, trigger, turn on, turn-on, work up
Antonyms
block, calm, check, curb, deaden, delay, deterrent, disapprove, discourage, discouragement, disincentive, dissuade, halt, hindrance, prevention, repress, stop
Cross references
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