Killer

Definition

kill /kÇl/ v ၁။ သတ္သည္။ အသတ္ခံရသည္။ ေသေစသည္။ Careless driving kills⚠ ❍ He was killed with a knife. ❍ Cancer kills thousands of people every year. ❍ We need something to kill the weeds. ❍ ( fig infml ) My mother will kill me when she finds out where I've been. [ ဥ ] လြန္စြာစိတ္ဆိုးသည္ (သတ္လိမ့္မည္)။ ၂။ ( infml ) အလြန္အမင္း နာသည္။ ေသလုမတတ္ နာသည္။ My feet are killing me. ❍ She nearly killed herself (with) laughing. အူတက္မတတ္ ရယ္သည္။ ၃။ ပ်က္ေစသည္။ ပ်က္ျပားေစသည္။ kill sb's affection/interest/appetite ❍ the goal that killed Brazil's chances of winning. ၄။ ( infml ) အၫြန္႔ခ်ဳိးသည္။ [ ဥ ] သတ္သည္။ kill a proposal/an idea (stone dead) ❍ The play was killed by bad reviews. ၅။ ( infml ) (မီ ၊း ေရဒီယို)ပိတ္သည္။ (စက္) သတ္သည္။ kill a light/the radio/a car engine. n ၁။ သတ္ျဖတ္ျခင္း။ After stalking its prey the lioness now moves in for the kill. ၂။ ( usu sing ) အေသေကာင္။ lions feeding on their kill. ❏ (be) in at the kill [ IDM ] နိဂံုးခ်ဳပ္ခန္း။ စခန္းသိမ္း။ ဇာတ္သိမ္း။ She wants to be in at the kill when his business finally collapses. ❏ kill oneself (doing sth/to do sth) [ IDM ] ( infml ) အပင္ပန္းခံလြန္းသည္။ The party's at eight, but don't kill yourself getting here/to get here on time. အပင္ပန္း ခံၿပီးေတာ့ အေစာႀကီးလာမေန ပါႏွင့္။ ❏ killer n သတ္သူ။ လူသတ္သမား။ ေသမင္းတမန္။ Police are hunting her killer. ❍ Heroin is a killer. ❍ Sharks have the killer instinct. See also LADY-KILLER ❏ killer whale n အျဖဴႏွင့္ အနက္ေရာင္ အသားစားေဝလငါး။ ❏ kill the goose that lays the golden eggs [ IDM ] ( saying ) (စကားပံု) ေရရွည္အက်ဳိးျပဳမည့္ ကိစၥကို ဖ်က္ဆီ ပးစ္ သည္။ ❏ kill sb/sth off [ PHRV ] သုတ္သင္သည္။ ရွင္းပစ္သည္။ မ်ဳိးတံုးေစသည္။ He killed off all his political opponents. ❍ Much of the local plant life has been killed off by air pollution. ❏ kill time ; kill two , a few , etc hours [ IDM ] တစ္စံု တစ္ရာေစာင့္ရင္း အခ်ိန္ျဖဳန္းသည္။ My flight was delayed, so I killed time/killed two hours reading a magazine. ❏ kill two birds with one stone [ IDM ] တစ္ခ်က္ခုတ္ ႏွစ္ခ်က္ျပတ္ လုပ္သည္။

Examples

1. Each year thousands of people are killed and injured on the roads.
2. Many people believe that killing animals for sport is morally wrong.
3. Speed kills.
4. My feet are killing me.
5. Those stairs kill me every time!
6. We killed a few hours watching videos.
7. [kill time] : Shopping can be a good way to kill time at the airport.
8. The group effectively killed speculation that a merger was about to take place.
9. The nurse will give you something to kill the pain.
10. Can you kill the lights?