untouchable
/ʌnˈtʌtʃəb(ə)l/
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American sound/ʌnˈtʌtʃəb(ə)l/
ʌnˈtʌtʃəbəl
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ʌn - ˈtʌtʃəbəl -> untouchable
Myanmar meaning
ထိတွေ့၍ မရနိုင်သော။ ထိလျှင် ဇာတ်ပျက်စေသည့် ဟိန္ဒူ မိရိုးဖလာ အဖွဲ့ဝင်။
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untouchable /ʌn'tʌtʃǝbl / adj
၁။ မထိနိုင်သော၊ မချိုးနိုင်သော (စံချိန်)။
an untouchable world record ❍ As long as he stays in South America he is untouchable by the British authorities.
၂။ အနိမ့်ဆုံး (ဟိန္ဒူဇာတ်၊ ဟာရီဂျန် ဇာတ်)။
n ဟာရီဂျန်။
More examples
- ‘They were arrogant enough to think they were untouchable, but they have been arrested.’
- ‘Police were today still hunting the weapon used to kill the 6ft, 20-stone criminal, who boasted in a TV documentary that he was untouchable.’
- ‘It was like reaching back in time and touching the untouchable, the unknowable.’
- ‘If marriage is invincible, indelibly written on the human heart, untouchable or only slightly touched by culture, where do all these fatherless families come from?’
- ‘Protected by his alleged status as a police informer, and until recently by two bodyguards, he has become a Scottish Don Corleone, the feared head of an untouchable empire.’
- ‘‘It was kind of a wake-up call that we're not untouchable, ’ said Logan, who lives in the District.’
- ‘We all know that youths are untouchable, that we're not allowed to defend ourselves and that authority is ridiculed.’
- ‘The health service is very politicised in this country which makes it almost untouchable.’
- ‘From his days as a small-time fence selling stolen goods from Boston's second-hand shop in Leith to the years running guns and stolen vehicles up the coast of east Africa, it appeared that he was untouchable.’
- ‘In the streets, they are almost untouchable, but their property is not.’
- ‘The order should show that no one is untouchable.’
- ‘Indeed, the citizenry's incentive to finger such bad guys isn't particularly strong when the word on the street is that the these people are untouchable.’
- ‘The outcome was ‘diversity training’, which made self-designated victim groups such as women, gays or travellers virtually untouchable.’
- ‘The life that can never be recreated is the invisible, untouchable inner one, which cannot be reproduced even by the most psychoanalytical detective.’
- ‘They are untouchable - nobody is prepared to go to court because they are too intimidated.’
- ‘They think they are untouchable because excuses are made for their appalling behaviour.’
- ‘If the government really wanted to restore the public trust they should go after execs like those at Adelphia and Enron that betray the public trust by acting like they are above the law, that corporate crime is untouchable.’
- ‘It looked ethereal, almost untouchable, and I fingered the silk, let it run between my fingers like water, then folded it up with the rest of my stuff that I would need.’
- ‘He said: ‘Many offenders think that they are untouchable and above the law.’’
- ‘The trio was under the impression that they were untouchable and would beat the rap and began to transfer their assets to relatives' modern-day off-shore accounts.’
Synonyms
impervious, invulnerable, untouched, unaffected, safe, beyond reach, castaway, exile, forbidden, impalpable, imperceptible, intangible, inviolable, leper, matchless, outcast, outsider, pariah, recluse, sacrosanct, superior, superlative, taboo, unassailable, unattainable, unbeatable, unchallenged, unparalleled, unrivaled
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