Alive

Definition

alive /ǝ'laÇv/ adj ၁။ အသက္ရိွ [ေသာ]။ ရွင္ [ေသာ]။ အသက္ ရွင္လ်က္ရိွ [ေသာ]။ She was still alive when I reached the hospital. ❍ Many people are still buried alive after the earthquake. ❍ He is believed to be the oldest man alive in the country. ၂။ အသက္ဝင္[ေသာ]။ ႏိုးႂကြ[ေသာ]။ သက္ဝင္ လႈပ္ရွား [ေသာ]။ He's looking more alive today. ❍ She suddenly came alive when I asked about her children. ❍ Her eyes were alive and full of fun. ၃။ ~ to sth ႏိုးၾကားလ်က္ရိွ [ေသာ]။ ဂ႐ုျပဳလ်က္ ရိွ [ေသာ]။ သတိထားမိ [ေသာ]။ He is fully alive to the possible dangers. ၄။ ရွင္သန္လ်က္ရိွ [ေသာ]။ အသက္ဆက္[ေသာ]။ Newspaper reports kept interest in the story alive. ❍ Class prejudice in Britain is still alive and well. ၅။ ~ with sth ေဖြးေဖြးလႈပ္လ်က္ရိွ [ေသာ]။ The lake was alive with fish. ❏ alive and kicking [ IDM ] ( infml ) အသက္ရွင္လ်က္။ လႈပ္လႈပ္ရွားရွား။ မာမာခ်ာခ်ာ။ You'll be glad to hear that Bill is alive and kicking.

Examples

1. My father died last year but my mother is still alive.
2. He is lucky to be alive after his fall.
3. [stay alive] : The family was stealing food just to stay alive.
4. [be buried/burned/captured etc alive] : The boat caught fire and the two men were burned alive.
5. Memories of the controversy are still very much alive.
6. [keep something alive] : Their goal was to keep alive the traditional Jewish faith.
7. With the wind rushing through her hair she felt intensely alive.
8. [alive with] : The street was alive with the sound of children playing.
9. [come alive] : The village really comes alive at Christmas.
10. [come alive] : The game really came alive after 25 minutes when Rogers scored.