Dictionary entry
A pregnant pause silence
Pronunciation
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Definition
pregnant /'pregnǝnt/ adj ပဋိသေႏၶရိွေသာ။ ကိုယ္ဝန္ရိွေသာ။ ဇီးရိွေသာ။ My wife is pregnant. ❍ Sue became/ got pregnant almost at once. ❍ My daughter was pregnant with her third child at the time. ❍ She was six months pregnant (ie had been pregnant for six months). ❍ Tom got his girlfriend pregnant, so they're getting married. ❏ pregnancy /-nǝnsi/ n (က) [U] ကိုယ္ဝန္ေဆာင္ခ်ိန္။ ကိုယ္ဝန္ရိွစဥ္။ ကိုယ္ဝန္ရိွျခင္း။ ကိုယ္ဝန္။ the later stages of pregnancy ❍ These drugs should not be taken during pregnancy. ❍ The pregnancy test was positive. (ခ) [C] ကိုယ္ဝန္ရိွျခင္း။ unplanned/ unwanted pregnancies ❍ the increase in teenage pregnancies ❍ She's had three pregnancies in four years. ❏ a pregnant pause silence [ IDM ] ( fml ) အဓိပၸာယ္ အျပည့္ပါေသာ ငံ့လင့္မႈ၊ တိတ္ဆိတ္မႈ။ There was a pregnant pause before she answered my question.
Examples
- You should not smoke if you are pregnant.
- I was eight months pregnant at the time.
- [get/become pregnant] : She’s been trying to get pregnant for a year now.
- [pregnant with] : I remember I was pregnant with Jenny when we moved here.
- [get someone pregnant] : He had started seeing Freda and got her pregnant.
- [heavily pregnant] : A heavily pregnant woman
- [pregnant with] : The situation was pregnant with possibilities.
- [pregnant pause/silence] : ‘OK
- let’s move on
- ’ said Bartlett after a long and pregnant pause.