Dictionary entry

Captive

Pronunciation: /ˈkaptɪv/

Pronunciation

/ˈkaptɪv/

Myanmar Meaning

(adj) ဖမ်းထားသော။ မနေသော။ ထွက်ပေါက်မရှိသော။ (n) အကျဉ်းသား။ လှောင်အိမ်၌ထည့်ထားသော တိရစ္ဆာန်။

Definition

captive /'kæptÇv/ adj ၁။ ဖမ္းထားေသာ။ a captive bird ❍ captive breeding (ie the catching and organized breeding of wild animals) ❍ They were taken/held captive by masked gunmen. ❍ ( fig ) a captive balloon (ie one that is held by a rope from the ground). ၂။ မိေနေသာ။ ထြက္ေပါက္မရိွေသာ။ A salesman loves to have a captive audience. ❍ a captive market. n အက်ဥ္းသား။ ေလွာင္အိမ္၌ထည့္ထားေသာ တိရစၧာန္။ Three of the captives tried to escape.

Examples

  1. [take/hold someone captive] : She was kidnapped and held captive for over a week.