Dictionary entry

Weed-killer

Pronunciation: /ˈwiːdkɪlə/

Pronunciation

/ˈwiːdkɪlə/

Myanmar Meaning

ပေါင်းသတ်ဆေး။

Definition

weed /wi:d/ n ၁။ (က) [C] ေပါင္းပင္။ The garden is overgrown with weeds. ❍ She spent the afternoon pulling up weeds in the flowerbeds. (ခ) [U] ေမွာ္ပင္။ The pond is full of weed. ၂။ [C] ( infml derog ) (က) [ဥ] ငါးေဖာင္႐ိုး။ (ခ) ေပ်ာ့ညံ့သူ ။ Don't be such a weed! ၃။ ( infml ) (က) the weed [sing] ( dated or joc ) ေဆးရြက္ႀကီး။ စီးကရက္။ I wish I could give up the weed (ie stop smoking). (ခ) [U] ေဆးေျခာက္။ ဆရာႀကီး။ v ေပါင္းသင္သည္။ I've been busy weeding (in) the garden. ❏ weed-killer n [C, U] ေပါင္းသတ္ေဆး။ spray the lawn with weed-killer. ❏ weed sth/sb out [ PHRV ] (မေကာင္း၊ မသင့္၊ မအပ္သည္ တို႔ကို) သုတ္သင္ဖယ္ရွားပစ္သည္။ weed out the weakest plants ❍ weed out corrupt party officials. ❏ weedy adj (က) ေပါင္းပင္မ်ားေတာထေနေသာ။ ေပါင္းထူ ေသာ။ (ခ) ( infml derog ) နံပိန္။ ငါးေဖာင္႐ိုးေျခာက္။ a weedy little man.

Examples

  1. The garden was overgrown with weeds.
  2. A chemical weedkiller can be used to kill persistent weeds.