Death-warrant

Definition

death /deθ/ n ၁။ [C] ေသဆံုးျခင္း။ ကြယ္လြန္ျခင္း။ a sudden/horrible/peaceful death ❍ Her death was a shock to him. ❍ There have been more deaths from drowning. ❍ A bad driver was responsible for their deaths. ၂။ [U] အသက္ဆံုး႐ံႈးျခင္း။ Food poisoning can cause death. ❍ burn/starve/stab sb to death (ie until they are dead) ❍ sentenced to death (ie to be executed) ❍ He's drinking himself to death. ❍ One mistake could mean death (ie could result in sb being killed). ၃။ [U] ~ of sth ပ်က္စီး ျခင္း။ ဇာတ္သိမ္းျခင္း။ နိဂံုး။ the death of one's plans/hopes ❍ the death of capitalism. ၄။ (also Death ) [U] ေသမင္း။ ေသျခင္းတရား။ မရဏတရား။ Death is often shown in paintings as a human skeleton. ❏ (be) at death's door [ IDM ] ( often ironic ) ေသအံ့မူးမူး။ ေသေကာင္ေပါင္းလဲ။ ေသမင္းခံတြင္းဝ။ Stop groaning! You're not at death's door! ❏ be the death of sb [ IDM ] ( often joc ) (ဒုကၡ ေပးလြန္းလို႔) ေသရခ်ည္ရဲ႕။ Those kids will be the death of me, coming home late every night. ❏ be in at the death [ IDM ] ပြဲၿပီးမွေရာက္သည္။ The TV cameras were in at the death and filmed the arrest. ❏ death certificate n ေသဆံုးေၾကာင္းလက္မွတ္။ ေသစာရင္း။ ❏ death duty n (usu pl ) ( Brit ) (ယခင္) ေသသူ၏ က်န္ရစ္ေသာ ဥစၥာပစၥည္းအေပၚ ေကာက္ေသာအခြန္။ အေမြခြန္။ (ယခု inheritance tax ဟုေခၚသည္။ ) ❏ death-knell n ပ်က္စီးျခင္းနိမိတ္။ Further education cuts may sound/toll the death-knell of many small schools. ❏ death-mask n ေသသူ၏မ်က္ႏွာကို ခ်က္ခ်င္း သြန္းေလာင္း ပံုသြင္းထားေသာပံု။ ❏ the death penalty n [sing] ေသစားေသေစအမိန္႔။ ေသဒဏ္။ abolish the death penalty. ❏ death rate n (ၿမိဳ႕တစ္ၿမိဳ႕၊ နယ္တစ္နယ္စသည္တြင္) တစ္ႏွစ္အတြင္း လူ ၁၀၀၀ တြင္ ေသဆံုးသူဦးေရ၊ ႏႈန္း။ လူေသႏႈန္း။ ❏ death-rattle n [sing] အသက္ထြက္လုနီး ခြၽဲေဖာက္သံ။ ❏ death row n ( US ) ႀကိဳးတိုက္။ ❏ death sentence n ေသဒဏ္။ ႀကိဳးမိန္႔။ receive/be given the death sentence. ❏ death's head n လူ႕ဦးေခါင္းခြံပံု။ အ႐ိုးေခါင္း။ ❏ death-toll n (စစ္၊ ေဘးအႏၲရာယ္စသည္ေၾကာင့္) ေသဆံုးသူ လူေပါင္း။ ❏ death-trap n ေသမင္းေထာင္ေခ်ာက္။ That sharp bend is a death-trap for motorists. ❍ The cars blocking the exits could turn this place into a death-trap. ❏ death-warrant n (က) ေသဒဏ္အမိန္႔စာ၊ ဝရမ္း။ (ခ) (တစ္စံုတစ္ခုကို) ပ်က္ေစမည့္၊ ဆံုးခန္းေရာက္ေစမည့္ လုပ္ရပ္။ The tax is a death-warrant for small businesses. ❏ death-watch beetle n နာရီစက္သံကဲ့သို႔ တခ်က္ခ်က္ျမည္၍ သစ္တံုးအေဆြးမ်ားကို ေဖာက္ထြင္းေသာ ပိုးေတာင္မာငယ္။ ❏ death-wish n [sing] မသိစိတ္၌ျဖစ္ေပၚေသာ ေသလို သည့္ဆႏၵ၊ ေသေစလိုသည့္ဆႏၵ။ ❏ do sth to death [ IDM ] စိတ္ကုန္စရာေကာင္းေအာင္ ဖန္တစ္ရာေတေနသည္။ That idea's been done to death. ❏ frighten/scare sb to death [ IDM ] လိပ္ျပာစဥ္သြားေအာင္ ေျခာက္လွန္႔သည္။ She was frightened to death by the thought of a visit to the dentist's. ❏ put sb to death [ IDM ] ကြပ္မ်က္သည္။ သတ္သည္။ The prisoner was put to death (by firing squad) at dawn. ❏ to death [ IDM ] အလြန္အမင္း။ ေသခ်င္ေစာ္နံေအာင္။ ေသလုေအာင္။ be bored/frightened/scared/worried to death ❍ I'm sick to death of your endless criticism. ❏ to the death [ IDM ] ေသသည္ထိ။ a fight to the death.

Examples

1. It was clear that Sandra was very close to death.
2. [bleed/starve/burn etc to death] : These people will starve to death unless they receive help soon.
3. [stab/kick/beat etc someone to death] : Two of the prisoners were beaten to death by the guards.
4. [escape death] : The couple narrowly escaped death when their car skidded off the road.
5. [the cause of death] : The doctor said that the cause of death was brain damage.
6. The rising number of deaths on the roads every year
7. There has recently been a death in their family.
8. [deaths from cancer/disease/traffic accidents etc] : The programme is aimed at reducing the number of deaths from cancer.
9. [death of] : The death of apartheid in South Africa
10. [spell the death of something] : These regulations could spell the death of the industry.