Paleness

Definition

pale 1 /peÇl/ adj ( -r, -est ) ၁။ ျဖဴေရာ္ေသာ။ ေဖ်ာ့ေတာ့ေသာ။ ေသြးဆုတ္ေသာ။ have a pale complexion ❍ be/go pale with anger/ fear/ shock ❍ Are you feeling all right? You look rather pale. ❍ He went/ turned deathly pale at the news. ၂။ (က) ႏုေသာ၊ ေဖ်ာ့ေသာ (အေရာင္)။ pale blue eyes ❍ a pale sky. (ခ) အားနည္းေသာ၊ မႈန္ေသာ၊ မိွန္ ေသာ (အလင္းေရာင္)။ the pale light of dawn. v ( at sth ) ေသြးဆုတ္သြားသည္။ ျဖဴဖပ္ျဖဴေရာ္ ျဖစ္သြားသည္။ He/ His face paled visibly (at the news). ❏ pale beside/ in comparison with sth [ PHRV ] ေသးႏုပ္သြားသည္။ ေသးသိမ္သြားသည္။ ေမွးမိွန္သြားသည္။ Investment in British Rail pales in comparison with the amount invested in continental railways. ❍ Their other problems paled into insignificance beside this latest catastrophe. ❏ palely /'peÇlli/ adv ျဖဴေရာ္ေရာ္။ ❏ paleness n [U] ျဖဴဖပ္ျဖဴေရာ္ျဖစ္ျခင္း။ ျဖဴေဖြးေနျခင္း။ pale 2 /peÇl/ n ၿခံတိုင္။ စည္း႐ိုး။ ❏ beyond the pale [ IDM ] လက္မခံႏိုင္ဖြယ္။ His remarks were clearly beyond the pale.

Examples

1. Pale blue/yellow/green
2. A pale sky
3. When he returned
4. he looked pale and weary.
5. [a pale shadow] : He’s become a pale shadow of his former self.
6. [a pale imitation] : The squad had become a pale imitation of the team that defeated New Zealand.