To stay one's hand

Definition

stark /stɑ:k / adj ( -er, -est) ၁။ (က) ရစရာမရိွေအာင္ ညံ့ေသာ။ ေျပာင္တလင္း ခါေသာ။ stark prison conditions ❍ The landscape was grey and stark. (ခ) အရိွအရိွအတိုင္းျဖစ္ေသာ။ the stark facts ❍ Many are facing the stark reality of long-term unemployment. ၂။ သိသိသာသာ၊ အတိုင္းသား [ကြာျခားေသာ]။ Her wealth is in stark contrast to the poverty all around her. ၃။ လံုးလံုး။ လံုးလံုးလ်ားလ်ား။ stark madness/terror. ❏ stark naked [ IDM ] လံုးလံုးလ်ားလ်ား ဗလာက်င္းလ်က္။ ❏ starkness n [U] သာယာဖြယ္တစ္ကြက္မွ်မရိွ။ ငံုးတိတိ။ မစိုျပည္။ the starkness of the winter landscape/of their living conditions. ❏ starkly adv အတိုင္းသား။ ထင္းထင္း။ ျပက္ျပက္ထင္ထင္။ starkly different/evident ❍ a style of architecture that contrasts starkly with that of a former age ❍ The trees looked starkly black against the winter sky. ❏ stark raving/staring mad [ IDM ] သြက္သြက္လည္ေအာင္ ႐ူးသည္။

Examples

1. She disliked the stark brick walls and the steel window frames.
2. The hill formed a stark silhouette against the sky.
3. [stark choice] : The stark choice is between moving out or staying here and paying more.
4. [stark reality] : Too many community leaders seem unable to grasp this stark reality.
5. There still remained one stark difference between the two men.
6. [in stark contrast] : His words were in stark contrast to what he had said earlier.
7. The bare trees stood out starkly in the snow.
8. These figures starkly illustrate the poor performance of the British economy.