Martyrdom

Definition

martyr /'mɑ:tǝ(r)/ n ၁။ အာဇာနည္။ the early Christian martyrs. ၂။ ( usu derog ) ကိုယ္က်ဳိးစြန္႔သည့္ လူစြမ္းေကာင္းပံု ဖမ္းေနသူ။ He always acts the martyr when he has to do the housework. ၃။ ~ ( to sth ) ( infml ) တေရွာင္ေရွာင္ ခံစားေနရသူ။ She's a martyr to rheumatism. v (usu passive) ယံုၾကည္ခ်က္ ျပင္းထန္သူကို ညႇဥ္းဆဲ သတ္ျဖတ္ သည္။ He was martyred by the Romans. ❏ martyrdom /'mɑ:tǝdǝm/ n [U, C] အာဇာနည္အျဖစ္။ အာဇာနည္ဘဝ။ Joan of Arc suffered martyrdom at the stake (ie by being burnt). ❏ martyred adj ( derog ) ကိုယ္က်ဳိးစြန္႔ အနစ္နာခံဟန္ ေဆာင္ေသာ။ She does everything with a martyred air.

Examples

1. He died a martyr for his cause.
2. She was a martyr to migraines.