Discourage

Definition

discourage /dÇs'kʌrÇdʒ/ v ၁။ ~ sb (from doing sth) စိတ္ပ်က္ ေအာင္လုပ္သည္။ စိတ္ဓာတ္က်ေစသည္။ Don't discourage her—she's doing her best. ❍ Don't let this discourage you from trying again. ၂။ (က) ဟန္႔တားလုပ္သည္။ အား မေပး။ Parents should discourage smoking. ❍ new measures to discourage car use in favour of public transport. အမ်ားသံုး ပို႔ေဆာင္ေရးယာဥ္ အသံုးျပဳေရး၊ ကိုယ္ပိုင္ ကား အသံုးျပဳမႈ အားမေပးေရး အစီအမံသစ္မ်ား။ (ခ) ~ sb from doing sth တားသည္။ ျမစ္သည္။ Parents should discourage their children from smoking. discouraged adj : Mark felt very discouraged after losing the match. ❏ discouragement n (က) [U] အားမေပးျခင္း။ စိတ္ပ်က္ ေစျခင္း။ စိတ္ဓာတ္က်ျခင္း။ a shrug of discouragement. (ခ) [C] အဖ်က္အဆီး။ အဟန္႔အတား။ စိတ္ပ်က္ေအာင္လုပ္ျခင္း။ Despite all these discouragements, she refused to give up. discouraging adj : a discouraging result/reply. discouragingly adv

Examples

1. Measures to discourage the use of cars in cities
2. [discourage someone from doing something] : We hope the bad weather won’t discourage people from coming along.
3. What she said didn’t discourage me.