Dictionary entry

Lest

Pronunciation: /lɛst/

Pronunciation

/lɛst/

Myanmar Meaning

(conj) စိုး၍၊ စိုးရိမ်၍။ မ …စေရန်။

Definition

lest / lest / conj ( fml ) ၁။ …စိုး၍၊ စိုးရိမ္၍။ မ …ေစရန္။ He disguised himself lest he be recognized. ❍ Lest anyone should think my story strange, let me assure you that it is all quite true. ၂။ (used after fear, be afraid, be anxious, etc) …မည္စိုး၍။ She was afraid lest he might drown. သူေရနစ္မည္ စိုး၍ စိတ္ပူေနသည္။

Examples

  1. Helen turned the radio down lest she should miss the phone ringing.