Dictionary entry

Perish the thought

Pronunciation

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Myanmar Meaning

(idm) ဖွ၊လွစေဖယ်စေ။

Definition

perish /'perÇʃ/ v ၁။ ( fml or rhet ) ပ်က္စီးသည္။ ေသသည္။ Thousands of people perished in the earthquake. ❍ They vowed to succeed or perish in the attempt. ၂။ (ေရာ္ဘာ)ေဆြးသြားသည္။ The seal on the bottle has perished. ❏ perishable adj ပ်က္စီး၊ ပုပ္သိုးလြယ္ေသာ (အထူးသျဖင့္ စားဖြယ္)။ perishable goods/ commodities. ❏ perishables n [pl] ပ်က္စီး၊ ပုပ္သိုးလြယ္ေသာအရာ (စားဖြယ္)။ ❏ perishing adj ( esp Brit ) ၁။ ေသမတတ္ေအး (ေသာ)။ It's perishing outside. ၂။ ( dated sl ) (စိတ္တိုမႈကို ေဖာ္ျပေသာ အာေမၮိတ္စကား)။ ေသနာက်။ ေသာက္။ I can't get in— I've lost the perishing key! ❏ perish the thought [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဖြ၊ လြဲေစဖယ္ေစ။ I'm not suggesting that pubs should never close—perish the thought!

Examples

  1. All our horses perished in the fire.
  2. Without greater public support the arts will perish.