Commendation

Definition

commend /kǝ'mend/ v ၁။ ~ sb (on/for sth) ; ~ sb/sth (to sb) ခ်ီးက်ဴးသည္။ Her work was highly commended. ❍ The book has much to commend it. ❍ The journalist was commended for his reporting of the case. ❍ His reputation does not commend him to me. သူဘယ္ေလာက္နာမည္ ႀကီးႀကီး ငါကေတာ့မခ်ီးက်ဴးဘူး။ ၂။ ~ oneself/itself to sb ( fml ) လက္ခံႏိုင္သည္။ ႏွစ္သက္သည္။ a plan which is unlikely to commend itself to the public. ၃။ ~ sb/oneself/sth to sb ( fml ) (ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ရန္)အပ္ႏွံသည္။ Almighty God, we commend to Your loving care all who suffer (ie as a prayer). ❏ commendable /-ǝbl/ adj ခ်ီးက်ဴးထိုက္ေသာ။ The police showed commendable restraint in the face of great provocation. commendably /-ǝbli/ adv ❏ commendation /kɒmen'deÇʃn/ n (က) [U] ခ်ီးက်ဴးျခင္း။ (ခ) [C] ~ (for sth) ဂုဏ္ျပဳခ်ီးျမႇင့္သည့္ ဆု။ a commendation for bravery ❍ Her painting won a commendation from the teacher.

Examples

1. His photograph was highly commended in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.
2. I commend the book to anyone who wants to know what is really happening in that part of the world.