Mercy killing

Definition

mercy /'mɜ:si / n ၁။ [U] သက္ညႇာမႈ။ ခြင့္လႊတ္မႈ။ သနား ၾကင္နာမႈ။ က႐ုဏာ။ They showed no mercy to their captives. ❍ God have mercy on his soul (eg in a prayer). ❍ The prisoner begged for mercy. ❍ a mercy dash/flight. အသက္ကယ္ အေရးေပၚခရီး၊ ပ်ံသန္းမႈ။ ၂။ [C usu sing ] ( infml ) ကံေကာင္းေထာက္မမႈ။ သက္သာရာရျခင္း။ ဝဋ္ ကြၽတ္ျခင္း။ It's a mercy she wasn't hurt in the accident. ❍ His death was a mercy (eg because he was in great pain). ❏ at the mercy of sb/sth/ [ IDM ] ျပဳသမွ် ႏုရမည့္။ က်ားသနားမွ ႏြားခ်မ္းသာမည့္။ put oneself/be at the mercy of a mortgage lender. ❏ leave sb/sth to the mercy/mercies of sb/sth [ IDM ] ဝကြက္အပ္သည္။ privatized companies left to the mercy of market forces. ❏ merciful /-fl / adj ~ (to/towards sb) သက္ညႇာေသာ။ က႐ုဏာစိတ္ရိွေသာ။ She was merciful to the prisoners. ❍ Death came as a merciful release. ❏ mercifully /-fǝli / adv ၁။ ( infml) ကံေကာင္းလို႔။ ေတာ္ပါေသးရဲ႕။ The play was very bad, but mercifully it was also short! ၂။ သက္သက္ညႇာညႇာ။ treat sb mercifully. ❏ merciless adj ~(to/towards sb/sth) မငဲ့ညႇာေသာ။ မသနားတတ္ေသာ။ ရက္စက္ေသာ။ အၾကင္နာကင္းမဲ့ေသာ။ a merciless killer/beating ❍ the merciless heat of the sun ❍ The critics were merciless towards his last play. ❏ mercilessly adv ရက္ရက္စက္စက္။ မသနား မညႇာတာ။ ❏ mercy killing n [U,C] ဝဋ္ကြၽတ္ေအာင္ သတ္ေပးျခင္း။ ❏ throw oneself on sb's mercy [ IDM ] ( fml ) ပံုအပ္သည္။ His lawyers advised him to throw himself on the mercy of the court and hope for a lenient sentence.

Examples

1. mercy /'mɜ:si / n ၁။ [U] သက္ညႇာမႈ။ ခြင့္လႊတ္မႈ။ သနား ၾကင္နာမႈ။ က႐ုဏာ။ They showed no mercy to their captives.
2. God have mercy on his soul (eg in a prayer).
3. The prisoner begged for mercy.
4. a mercy dash/flight. အသက္ကယ္ အေရးေပၚခရီး၊ ပ်ံသန္းမႈ။ ၂။ [C usu sing ] ( infml ) ကံေကာင္းေထာက္မမႈ။ သက္သာရာရျခင္း။ ဝဋ္ ကြၽတ္ျခင္း။ It's a mercy she wasn't hurt in the accident.
5. the merciless heat of the sun