Dictionary entry

Staggering

Pronunciation: /ˈstaɡə/

Pronunciation

/ˈstaɡə/

Myanmar Meaning

အံ့သြဖွယ်ကောင်းသော ကြက်သေသေစေသော။

Definition

stagger /'stægǝ(r) / v ၁။ ယိမ္းထိုးေလွ်ာက္သည္။ ဒယီးဒယိုင္သြား သည္။ [ ဥ ] သိုင္းကြက္နင္းသည္။ I hit him hard and he staggered and fell. ❍ He staggered to his feet and continued the fight. ❍ I saw him staggering home drunk from the pub again last night. ❍ One man had managed to stagger out (of the wreckage). ❍ ( fig ) stagger under the weight/burden of one's responsibilities. ❍ SHUFFLE ၂။ (usu passive) အႀကီးအက်ယ္ ရင္သပ္ ႐ႈေမာအံ့ဩသည္။ You will be staggered by the enormous variety of plants in her garden. ❍ I was staggered to hear/when I heard of his death. ❍ It staggers me that the government are doing nothing about it. ၃။ တစ္ထပ္ တည္းမက်ေအာင္ အခ်ိန္ဇယား ဆြဲသည္။ လႊဲဆြဲသည္။ staggered office hours ❍ stagger the annual holidays. ❏ staggering /'stægǝrÇŋ / adj အံ့ဖြယ္သရဲ။ မယံုႏိုင္ေလာက္ ေသာ။ a staggering achievement ❍ earn a staggering £10000 a week ❍ I find their decision simply staggering. ❏ staggeringly adv ရင္သပ္႐ႈေမာေလာက္ေအာင္။ staggeringly beautiful.

Examples

  1. She staggered and fell.
  2. [stagger backwards/towards/into/out of] : He gave her a slight push
  3. and she staggered backwards.
  4. Ruth staggered out of her bedroom to pick up the phone.
  5. [stagger to your feet] : The man staggered to his feet and ran away.
  6. Rory was staggered by his answer.
  7. He staggers on as president
  8. despite his increasing frailty.
  9. The museum is staggering under debts of nearly £5 million.
  10. Staggered working hours