vigil
/ˈvɪdʒɪl/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈvɪdʒɪl/
vigil
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- 2 syllables
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- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Short i vowel
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- Clear final sound
vi - gil -> vigil
Myanmar meaning
စောင့်ကြည့်ရန်၊ ဝတ်ပြုရန် တစ်ညလုံးမအိပ်ဘဲ နိုးကြားနေခြင်း။ ပွဲတော်၊ နေ့ထူးနေ့မြတ်၏ အကြိုညနေခင်း။
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- ‘For the next three days we kept vigil at his bed in the private clinic.’
- ‘Abandoned by their father, forsaken by neighbors, Bolas and the children kept vigil over their mother.’
- ‘If we could take a look now at those live pictures of St. Peter's Square, to an estimated 70, 000 people have gathered to maintain a vigil and to pray for the pope.’
- ‘For two weeks, various members of the family kept vigil by his bedside in intensive care.’
- ‘Some fans were seen weeping and praying for his fast recovery while others kept vigil in a nearby church.’
- ‘It might have been her outpouring of love and grief, it might have been her courage in driving away the wild animals, the length of her lonely vigil on the mountain, or a combination of these.’
- ‘While she spent her evenings preparing, he maintained an intermittent vigil at the bedroom window, offering some grudging help between observing sessions.’
- ‘The press was informed and, as older people will remember, it seemed that the whole world gathered in a vigil around his deathbed.’
- ‘A loyal dog kept vigil for more than a week beside a woman who died in her Bolton home.’
- ‘Parents kept vigil, wrapped in blankets before fires at the site of the catastrophe amid the silence of those buried under the mountain of masonry.’
- ‘Two nights before she died, there was an all-night vigil at her bedside.’
- ‘In the old days families kept vigil and ate little ‘Soul’ cakes.’
- ‘Now Lauren, from Worsley, and her partner, Ashley Easdale, are keeping a bedside vigil to watch his progress.’
- ‘She was later transferred to Great Ormond Street Hospital in London where her parents were this morning keeping a bedside vigil.’
- ‘A mourner, fallen asleep in a late-night vigil, awakes the next morning to find that not only are his trousers missing, but the corpse has been stolen as well.’
- ‘They have welcomed the family into the church where parishioners and the vicar are keeping a round-the-clock vigil over them.’
- ‘Now parents will be able to take a break from their bedside vigil happy they can watch their child's every movement on a TV screen in a private room downstairs.’
- ‘Since the executions were held very early in the mornings, we found that prisoners kept vigil through the night, staying awake with the woman who was to be executed.’
- ‘We kept vigil by his bedside for hours until for me three in the morning and for my mother four in the morning.’
- ‘But when I came and kept vigil in his armchair while he lay on his left ribs, his back rolled around him like an exoskeleton, all night I stared at his books neat in their shelves.’
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