In the dead of winter

Definition

dead /ded/ adj ၁။ (က) အေသ။ အသက္မရိွေတာ့ေသာ။ အႏြမ္း။ a dead person/animal ❍ dead flowers/cells ❍ He was shot dead by masked gunmen. ❍ The tiger fell dead. (ခ) သက္မဲ့(အရာဝတၳဳ)။ dead matter (eg rock) ❍ a dead planet (ie one with no life on it). ၂။ ( infml ) ေသလုေအာင္ေမာပန္း ေသာ။ ေသ႐ုပ္ေပါက္ေနေသာ။ You look completely dead. Are you all right? ၃။ (က) ထံုက်ဥ္ [ေသာ]။ I couldn't unlock the door because my fingers had gone dead. (ခ) ~ to sth ခံစားမႈကင္းေသာ။ He was dead to all feelings of pity. ၄။ ပ်က္ေနေသာ။ a dead match (ie one that has been struck) ❍ a dead battery ❍ The telephone went dead (ie produced no more sounds). ၅။ ၿပီးဆံုးသြားေသာ။ ကုန္ဆံုးသြားေသာ။ မသံုးေတာ့ေသာ။ This debate is now dead. ❍ My love for him is dead. ❍ a dead language (eg. Latin). ၆။ (က) ( infml ) ပ်င္းရိဖြယ္ ေကာင္းေသာ။ ၿငီးေငြ႕ဖြယ္ ေကာင္းေသာ။ What a dead place this is! ❍ The acting was pretty dead. (ခ) ေျခာက္ကပ္တိတ္ဆိတ္ေနေသာ။ The town is dead now the factory has closed. ❍ in the dead hours of the night. ၇။ လံုးလံုးလ်ားလ်ား။ အႂကြင္းမဲ့။ ေသခ်ာ ေပါက္။ တည့္တည့္။ dead calm/silence ❍ come to a dead stop ❍ dead centre ❍ He's a dead cert/ certainty for the 100 metres. ၈။ (က) ေျခာက္ကပ္ေသာ။ a dead voice. (ခ) ထိုင္းမိႈင္းေသာ။ The walls were a dead brown colour. ၉။ ( sports ) (က) ကစားကြင္း ျပင္ဘက္ေရာက္ေသာ (ေဘာလံုး)။ (ခ) ( esp Brit ) ေရတင္၍ ေဘာလံုးေကာင္းစြာ မလိမ့္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ Rain had made the pitch rather dead. adv ၁။ လံုးဝ။ လံုးလံုးလ်ားလ်ား။ အလြန္႔အလြန္။ တအား။ တည့္တည့္။ ကြက္တိ။ အျပတ္။ dead tired/drunk ❍ dead sure/certain ❍ dead level/straight ❍ You're dead right! ❍ The train was dead on time. ❍ The sight made him stop dead (in his tracks). (ျမင္လိုက္ရေသာ) ျမင္ကြင္းက သူ႕ကို ၾကက္ေသေသသြားေစသည္။ ❍ dead slow (ie as slowly as possible) ❍ dead ahead (ie directly ahead) ❍ be dead against (ie absolutely opposed to) sth ❍ She's dead set on getting (ie determined to get) this new job. ၂။ ( infml ) အလြန္။ သိပ္။ The instructions are dead easy to follow. n the dead လူေသ။ လူေသေကာင္။ We carried the dead and (the) wounded off the battlefield. ❍ She was screaming enough to wake the dead. ❏ be a dead ringer for sb [ IDM ] ( sl ) တေထရာတည္း တူသည္။ She is a dead ringer for a girl I used to know. ❏ be the dead spit of sb [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) ခြၽတ္စြပ္တူ သည္။ ❏ cut sb dead [ IDM ] မျမင္ဟန္ေဆာင္သည္။ ႏႈတ္မဆက္ဘဲ ေနသည္။ ❏ (as) dead as a/the dodo [ IDM ] ( infml ) စင္းစင္းေသ ေသာ။ Last year's plans to reform the company are now as dead as the dodo. ❏ (as) dead as a doornail [ IDM ] ( infml ) လူေသေကာင္လို။ It lay there with its eyes closed, dead as a doornail. ❏ dead-beat n ( infml ) ၁။ ဆင္းရဲလြန္း၍ ဘဝကို လက္ေျမႇာက္ အ႐ံႈးေပးထားသူ။ ၂။ ( US ) ၿငီးေငြ႕စရာ ေကာင္းေသာသူ။ ❏ dead beat adj ( infml ) ေျခကုန္လက္ပန္းက်ေသာ။ You look dead beat. ❏ a dead duck [ IDM ] ( infml ) အျဖစ္မရိွသည့္အရာ။ The plan is a dead duck: there's no money. ❏ dead end n ၁။ တစ္ဖက္ပိတ္လမ္း။ The first street we tried was a dead end. ၂။ (လုပ္ငန္း၊ အႀကံအစည္ စသည္) လမ္းဆံုး။ be at/come to a dead end ❍ We had reached a dead end in our research. ❏ a dead end job/career တက္လမ္းမရိွေသာ၊ ပိတ္ေနေသာ အလုပ္။ ❏ the dead hand of sth [ IDM ] မလြန္႔သာေအာင္ ခ်ဳပ္ကိုင္မႈ။ delayed by the dead hand of bureaucracy. ❏ dead heat n ၿပိဳင္တူပန္းဝင္ျခင္း။ ဒက္ထိဝင္ျခင္း။ ❏ dead letter n (usu sing ) ၁။ လိပ္စာရွင္ရွာမေတြ႕၊ ျပန္ပို႔ ရန္ လိပ္စာလည္းမပါ၍ စာေသ႐ံုးတြင္ သိမ္းဆည္းထားေသာစာ။ စာေသ။ Dead letter office. ၂။ သံုးမရေသာ၊ ေဘးခ်ိတ္ထား ေသာ ဥပေဒ၊ က်င့္ထံုး။ The treaty turned out to be a dead letter from the start. ❏ dead loss n (usu sing ) ( infml ) ၁။ ေလ်ာ္ေၾကးမရေသာ ပ်က္စီးဆံုး႐ံႈးမႈ။ ၂။ မစြံေသာသူ။ အသံုးမက်၊ သံုးမရသူ။ He was a very creative designer but as a manager he's a dead loss. ❏ dead to the world [ IDM ] ကုလားေသကုလားေမာ။ ❏ dead weight n (usu sing ) အလြန္ေလးလံေသာဝန္။ ဝန္ထုပ္ ဝန္ပိုး။ The drunken man was a dead weight in my arms. ❍ ( fig ) cast off the dead weight of outmoded beliefs. ❏ dead wood n [U] အသံုးမက်ေသာသူ၊ အရာ။ ဝါးေဆြး။ There is too much dead wood among the teaching staff. ❍ The new manager wants to cut out the dead wood and streamline production. ❏ in the/at dead of night [ IDM ] အကာလ။ ညဥ့္နက္ သန္းေခါင္။ လူေျခတိတ္။ They escaped at dead of night, when the guards were asleep. ❏ in the dead of winter [ IDM ] ေဆာင္းရာသီ၏ အခ်မ္းဆံုး အခ်ိန္ကာလ။ ❏ over my dead body [ IDM ] (ျပင္းျပင္းထန္ထန္ ကန္႔ကြက္မႈ ကို ေဖာ္ျပေသာစကား)။ ငါေသမွလုပ္။ They'll demolish this house over my dead body. ❍ ‘I'm inviting my mother to stay. ’‘Over my dead body!’ ❏ wouldn't be seen dead in, at, with, etc sth/doing sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေသေတာင္မလုပ္ဘူး၊ မဝတ္ဘူး (စသည့္ ျငင္းဆန္ခ်က္)။ I wouldn't be seen dead in a dress like that.

Examples

1. The police don’t know whether she’s alive or dead.
2. He is grieving for his dead father.
3. I raked up the dead leaves.
4. [a dead body] : Rescue workers are still pulling dead bodies out of the rubble.
5. [leave someone dead] : The shootings left 14 people dead.
6. [leave someone for dead] : He was beaten and left for dead by a gang of teenagers.
7. [be feared/presumed dead] : Three people are still missing
8. presumed dead.
9. [clinically dead] : Doctors pronounced him clinically dead two days later.
10. [more dead than alive] : They staggered down the mountain
11. more dead than alive.
12. [dead and gone] : All of that generation are now dead and gone.
13. [long dead] : By the time I had my children
14. Grandma was long dead.
15. [the dead and injured] : Fifteen of her relatives were among the dead and injured.
16. [the dead and dying] : The bridge was soon blocked with the dead and dying.
17. [bury the/your dead] : The people of the town now want to be left alone to bury their dead.
18. The battery was completely dead.
19. [go dead] : The phone suddenly went dead.
20. The street seems dead without all the bustle of the children.
21. Winter is traditionally a dead time of year in the fashion business.
22. [be far from dead] : Eleven minutes of this game remaining
23. and it’s far from dead!
24. The idea of self-government for the area is now effectively dead.
25. Feminism is not dead.
26. [be dead and buried] : A government spokesman acknowledged that the peace process is dead and buried.
27. You kids seem half dead!
28. [dead on your feet] : By the time we had finished we were all dead on our feet.
29. [go dead] : My legs had gone completely dead.
30. She turned to him with her strange dead eyes.
31. [dead silence] : She finished speaking
32. and there was dead silence in the room.
33. [dead centre] : The bullet hit the target dead centre (=exactly in the centre).
34. [a dead stop] : The truck suddenly came to a dead stop.
35. [in a dead faint] : She fell forward and hit the floor in a dead faint.
36. If Louise catches you going through her purse
37. you’re dead!
38. Sometimes my friend is dead from the neck up.