Dictionary entry

Hesitate

Pronunciation: /ˈhɛzɪteɪt/

Pronunciation

/ˈhɛzɪteɪt/

Myanmar Meaning

(v) တုံ့ဆိုင်းသည်။ဆုတ်ဆိုင်းသည်။ဆိုင်းငံ့သည်။ချီတုံချတုံဖြစ်သည်။ တွန့်ဆုတ်သည်။ဝန်လေးသည်။

Definition

hesitate /'hezÇteÇt/ v ၁။ ~ ( at/ about/ over sth ) တံု႔ဆိုင္းသည္။ ဆုတ္ဆိုင္းသည္။ ဆိုင္းငံ့သည္။ ခ်ီတံုခ်တံုျဖစ္သည္။ She replied without hesitating. ❍ She hesitated before replying. ( saying ) He who hesitates is lost. ❍ He's still hesitating about joining/ over whether to join the expedition. ၂။ တြန္႔ဆုတ္သည္။ ဝန္ေလးသည္။ I hesitate to spend that much money on clothes. ❍ Don't hesitate to tell us if you have a problem. ❏ hesitation /hezÇ'teÇʃn/ n [U, C]: She agreed without the slightest hesitation. ❍ There's no time/ room for hesitation. ❍ His frequent hesitations annoyed the audience.

Examples

  1. He hesitated a moment
  2. and then knocked on the door.
  3. [hesitate to do something] : My mother never hesitates to tell me when I look bad.