Dictionary entry

Contrive

Pronunciation: /kənˈtrʌɪv/

Pronunciation

/kənˈtrʌɪv/

Myanmar Meaning

(v) ဖန်တီးသည်။ ကြံဖန်သည်။ အခက်အခဲကြားမှ ကြံဖန်ကြိုးစားသည်။

Definition

contrive /kǝn'traÇv/ v ( fml ) ၁။ ဖန္တီးသည္။ ႀကံဖန္သည္။ contrive a device/ an experiment/ a means of escape ❍ contrive a way of avoiding paying tax ❍ We contrived that she should leave early that day. ၂။ အခက္အခဲၾကားမွ ႀကံဖန္ႀကိဳးစားသည္။ contriving to live on a small income. ❍ ( ironic ) He contrived to make matters worse (ie accidentally made them worse by what he did). ❏ contrived adj ( derog ) (က) တင္ကူးစီစဥ္ထားသည့္ လိမ္ဆင္။ a contrived outburst ❍ a contrived incident intended to mislead the newspapers. (ခ) ဖန္တီးထားမွန္း သိသာေသာ။ သဘာဝမက်ေသာ။ a novel with a very contrived plot.

Examples

  1. They would have to contrive a meeting.
  2. [contrive to do something] : We contrived to have an enjoyable holiday in spite of the rain.