Desertion

Definition

desert 1 /dÇ'zɜ:t/ v ၁။ (က) အၿပီးစြန္႔ခြာသည္။ The village had been hurriedly deserted as the tanks drew nearer. (ခ) ပစ္ထားခဲ့သည္။ စြန္႔ပစ္သည္။ စြန္႔ခြာသည္။ He deserted his wife and children and went abroad. ❍ His popularity declined and even his friends started deserting him. ❍ Members are deserting the party in droves. (ဂ) (အရည္ အခ်င္း) အေရးထဲတြင္ ကြယ္ေပ်ာက္သြားသည္။ At this point his presence of mind/courage deserted him. ၂။ စစ္တပ္မွ ထြက္ေျပးသည္။ A soldier who deserts (his post) in time of war is punished severely. ❏ deserted adj (က) လူသူကင္းမဲ့ေသာ။ က်ီးႏွင့္ဖုတ္ဖုတ္ ျဖစ္ေနေသာ။ တစျပင္ျဖစ္ေနေသာ။ a deserted street/area ❍ The office was completely deserted. (ခ) စြန္႔ပစ္ထားေသာ။ a deserted hut/house. ❍ a deserted wife (ie one whose husband has left her). ❏ deserter n တပ္ေျပး။ ❏ desertion /dÇ'zɜ:ʃn/ n [U, C] စြန္႔ပစ္ထားမႈ။ တပ္ေျပးမႈ။ Is desertion grounds for divorce? ❍ Desertion from the army is punishable by death. ❍ mutinies and mass desertions in the forces. desert 2 /'dezǝt/ n [C, U] သဲကႏၲာရ။ Somalia is mostly desert. ❍ cross the Sahara Desert ❍ arid desert wastes/ sands. ❏ desert island n အပူပိုင္းေဒသရိွ လူသူမေနေသာကြၽန္း။ shipwrecked on a desert island.

Examples

1. A desert of car parks and concrete buildings