Gulp

Definition

gulp / gʌlp / v ၁။ ~ sth (down) အလ်င္စလို မ်ဳိခ်သည္။ She took the coffee, first sipping it, then gulping it (down) greedily. ၂။ တံေတြးမ်ဳိသည္။ She gulped nervously, as if the question bothered her. ၃။ ~ sth (in); ~ for sth ေလကို အငမ္းမရ ႐ႉ သည္။ She came up gulping (for air) ❍ She crawled onto the river bank and lay there gulping (in) air. n ၁။ တစ္က်ဳိက္၊ တစ္ငံု စသည္။ take a gulp of cold milk ❍ a deep gulp of sea air. ၂။ အငမ္းမရ႐ႉျခင္း။ မ်ဳိျခင္း။ sob with loud gulps ❍ drink a glass of whisky in one gulp/ at a gulp. ဒီဝီစကီ တစ္ခြက္လံုးကို တစ္က်ဳိက္တည္း မ်ဳိခ် လိုက္သည္။ ❏ gulp sth back [ PHRV ] မ်ဳိသိပ္သည္။ ဆည္သည္။ She gulped back her tears and tried to smile.

Examples

1. He lay on the river bank
2. gulping air into his lungs.
3. [gulp for air/breath] : She suffers from asthma attacks that leave her gulping for breath.