Fathom

Definition

fathom / 'fæðǝm / n ေရအနက္တစ္လံ။ ေရ ၆ေပအနက္ (သို႔) ၁.၈မီတာအနက္။ The harbour is four fathoms deep. ❍ The ship sank in twenty fathoms. v ~ sb/sth (out) နားလည္သေဘာေပါက္သည္။ For reasons that I have never been able to fathom, the jury found him guilty. ❍ I'm trying to fathom out the motives behind his proposal.

Examples

1. fathom / 'fæðǝm / n ေရအနက္တစ္လံ။ ေရ ၆ေပအနက္ (သို႔) ၁.၈မီတာအနက္။ The harbour is four fathoms deep.
2. The ship sank in twenty fathoms. v ~ sb/sth (out) နားလည္သေဘာေပါက္သည္။ For reasons that I have never been able to fathom, the jury found him guilty.
3. I'm trying to fathom out the motives behind his proposal.