Dictionary entry
Stagger
Pronunciation: /ˈstaɡə/
Pronunciation
/ˈstaɡə/
Myanmar Meaning
(v.t) ယိမ်းယိုင်စေသည်။ကတိမ်းကပါးဖြစ်စေသည်။(n) မူးဝေခြင်း။
Definition
stagger /'stægǝ(r) / v ၁။ ယိမ္းထိုးေလွ်ာက္သည္။ ဒယီးဒယိုင္သြား သည္။ [ ဥ ] သိုင္းကြက္နင္းသည္။ I hit him hard and he staggered and fell. ❍ He staggered to his feet and continued the fight. ❍ I saw him staggering home drunk from the pub again last night. ❍ One man had managed to stagger out (of the wreckage). ❍ ( fig ) stagger under the weight/burden of one's responsibilities. ❍ SHUFFLE ၂။ (usu passive) အႀကီးအက်ယ္ ရင္သပ္ ႐ႈေမာအံ့ဩသည္။ You will be staggered by the enormous variety of plants in her garden. ❍ I was staggered to hear/when I heard of his death. ❍ It staggers me that the government are doing nothing about it. ၃။ တစ္ထပ္ တည္းမက်ေအာင္ အခ်ိန္ဇယား ဆြဲသည္။ လႊဲဆြဲသည္။ staggered office hours ❍ stagger the annual holidays. ❏ staggering /'stægǝrÇŋ / adj အံ့ဖြယ္သရဲ။ မယံုႏိုင္ေလာက္ ေသာ။ a staggering achievement ❍ earn a staggering £10000 a week ❍ I find their decision simply staggering. ❏ staggeringly adv ရင္သပ္႐ႈေမာေလာက္ေအာင္။ staggeringly beautiful.
Examples
- She staggered and fell.
- [stagger backwards/towards/into/out of] : He gave her a slight push
- and she staggered backwards.
- Ruth staggered out of her bedroom to pick up the phone.
- [stagger to your feet] : The man staggered to his feet and ran away.
- Rory was staggered by his answer.
- He staggers on as president
- despite his increasing frailty.
- The museum is staggering under debts of nearly £5 million.
- Staggered working hours