Faint

Definition

faint / feÇnt / adj (-er, -est) ၁။ မိွန္ေသာ။ အားနည္းေသာ။ တိမ္ သြားေသာ။ (သင္း) ပ်ပ်။ (ညီႇ) စို႔စို႔။ a faint glow/glimmer ❍ a faint smell of perfume ❍ We saw the faint outline of the mountain through the mist. ❍ The sounds of music grew fainter and fainter. ၂။ (က) အားနည္းေသာ။ အား ေပ်ာ့ေသာ။ in a faint voice ❍ His breathing became faint. (ခ) မူးေမ့မလိုျဖစ္ [ေသာ]။ မူးေဝ [ေသာ]။ She suddenly felt faint. (ဂ) အားနည္းေမာပန္းေသာ။ အားအင္ခ်ဳိ႕တဲ့ေသာ။ The explorers were faint from hunger and cold. ၃။ ေရးေရးမွ် ရိွေသာ။ There is still a faint hope/chance that she may be cured. ၄။ စိတ္မပါေသာ။ a faint show of resistance. v သတိလစ္သည္။ Do not bend over suddenly because this can cause fainting or dizziness. ❍ He fainted from hunger. n [sing] သတိလစ္ျခင္း။ She fell to the ground in a (dead) faint. ❏ the faint-hearted n [pl v ] သူရဲေဘာနည္းသူ။ The 130-mile ride is not for the faint-hearted. ❏ faint-hearted adj သူရဲေဘာနည္းေသာ။ ❏ faintly adv ယဲ့ယဲ့။ နည္းနည္း။ She smiled faintly. ❍ I was faintly alarmed to hear this. faintness n [U] ❏ not have the faintest/foggiest (idea) [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေရးေရးမွ်မသိ။ လံုးဝမသိပါ။ ‘Do you know where she is ?’ ‘Sorry, I haven't the faintest.

Examples

1. He could see the faint glow of a lamp through the curtains.
2. His voice was so faint as to be almost inaudible.
3. The faint scent of woodsmoke
4. Her memories of her father were very faint.
5. She shrugged
6. forcing a faint smile.
7. He looked around the room in the faint hope that Sam might suddenly appear.
8. Dan suddenly felt faint.