Dictionary entry

Devastating

Pronunciation: /ˈdɛvəsteɪtɪŋ/

Pronunciation

/ˈdɛvəsteɪtɪŋ/

Myanmar Meaning

(adj) အကြီးအကျယ် ဖျက်ဆီးသော။ ဖွတ်ဖွတ်ညက်ညက် ကြေစေသော။ ယူကျုံးမရဖြစ်စေသော။ စိတ်ထိခိုက် စေသော။ အထင်ကြီးစေသော။ ထိမသော။ ကြီးစွာသော အပျက် အစီး။

Definition

devastate /'devǝsteÇt/ v (က) ေမႊေႏွာက္ဖ်က္ဆီးသည္။ ဖြတ္ဖြတ္ ညက္ညက္ေၾကေစသည္။ a country devastated by war ❍ Bombs had devastated the town. (ခ) ( infml ) (often passive) ဝမ္းနည္းပက္လက္ ျဖစ္ေစသည္။ ယူက်ံဳးမရျဖစ္ေစသည္။ She was devastated by (the news of) his death. ❏ devastating /'devǝsteÇtÇŋ/ adj ၁။ အႀကီးအက်ယ္ ဖ်က္ဆီးေသာ။ ဖြတ္ဖြတ္ညက္ညက္ ေၾကေစေသာ။ a devastating war/famine/storm. ၂။ ယူက်ံဳးမရျဖစ္ေစေသာ။ စိတ္ထိခိုက္ ေစေသာ။ devastating criticism/news. ၃။ ( infml ) အထင္ႀကီးေစေသာ။ ထိမိေသာ။ devastating wit ❍ She looked devastating (ie very beautiful). ❍ He played with devastating effect. devastatingly adv ❏ devastation /devǝ'steÇʃn/ n [U] ႀကီးစြာေသာ အပ်က္ အစီး။ The storm left scenes of utter devastation.

Examples

  1. Western India was devastated by a huge earthquake.
  2. Mary’s sisters were devastated by her disappearance.