Dictionary entry
Prey on s mind
Pronunciation
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Myanmar Meaning
(idm) စိတ်တစ္ဆေခြောက်လှန့်လျက်ရှိသည်။
Definition
prevail /prÇ'veÇl/ v ၁။ ~ ( in sth ) အႏွံ႔အျပားတည္ရိွသည္၊ ျဖစ္ေပၚ သည္။ ပ်ံ႕ႏွံ႔သည္။ the living conditions that then prevailed ❍ The use of animals for ploughing still prevails in many countries. ၂။ ~ ( against/over sb/sth ) ( fml ) ေအာင္ႏိုင္သည္။ လႊမ္းမိုးသည္။ Virtue will prevail (against evil). ❍ The invaders prevailed over the native population. ❏ prevailing adj (က) ေခတ္စားေနေသာ။ ေရပန္းစားေန ေသာ။ the prevailing customs/fashions/conditions. (ခ) တိုက္ၿမဲ (ေလ)။ The prevailing wind here is from the southwest. ❏ prevail on/upon sb to do sth [ PHRV ] ( fml ) လက္ခံပါ ရန္ တိုက္တြန္းသည္။ May I prevail on you to make a speech after dinner?
Examples
- A report on the economic conditions prevailing in the country
- A friendly atmosphere prevailed among the crowds in the park.
- We hope that common sense will prevail and an agreement will soon be reached.
- In the end
- the Chinese view prevailed.
- The centre-left coalition is expected to prevail in next month’s election.
- [prevail over] : The Italian team eventually prevailed over Russia 45 – 43.