Despair

Definition

despair /dÇ'speǝ(r)/ n [U] ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခ်က္ပ်က္သုဥ္းျခင္း။ စိတ္ပ်က္ လက္ပ်က္ျဖစ္ျခင္း။ လက္မိႈင္ခ်ျခင္း။ a cry of despair ❍ He gave up the struggle in despair. ❍ The general mood is one of complete and utter despair. ❍ His stupidity is driving me to despair. See also DESPERATE ၁ v ၁။ ~ (of sth/doing sth) စိတ္ပ်က္သည္။ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခ်က္ ကုန္သည္။ Don't despair! We'll think of a way out of this! ❍ Months passed, and we began to despair of ever hearing from him again. ၂။ ~ of sb စိတ္ကုန္သည္။ ေအာခ် သည္။ I despair of him; he can't keep a job for more than six months. ❏ be the despair of sb [ IDM ] ( fml ) ေအာခ်ရသူ။ လက္မိႈင္ ခ်ရသူ။ Your son is the despair of all his teachers (ie They no longer expect to be able to teach him anything). ❏ despairing /dÇ'speǝrÇŋ/ adj စိတ္ပ်က္လက္ပ်က္ ျဖစ္ေသာ။ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခ်က္ကုန္ေသာ။ a despairing cry/sigh. ❏ despairingly adv စိတ္ပ်က္စြာ။ စိတ္ပ်က္လက္ပ်က္။ She looked despairingly at the mess.

Examples

1. To my utter despair
2. the car would not start.
3. [in despair] : In despair he phoned the embassy.