Zap

Definition

zap /zæp/ v ( -pp- ) ( infml ) ၁။ ~ sb (with sth) သတ္သည္။ ေမ့ေျမာသြားေစသည္။ He looked like a man zapped with 1000 volts. ၂။ ဖ်က္ဆီးသည္။ ႏိုင္ေအာင္လုပ္သည္။ The radar got zapped. ❍ It's vital to zap stress fast. ၃။ (တီဗီြ၊ ကြန္ပ်ဴတာ) ပိတ္သည္။ ၄။ ဝီွးခနဲသြားသည္။ Have you seen him zapping around town on his new motor bike? ❍ She zapped the ball (back) over the net.

Examples

1. ‘The grapefruit-sized tumor was zapped with chemotherapy
2. radiation and relentless courage.’
3. ‘I've spotted a grubby fingerprint on the window and I can't concentrate until I've zapped it with a bottle of Dettox and a damp cloth.’
4. ‘You need to have top-flight shooting skills to zap the constantly moving targets that are your enemy.’
5. ‘Science has wiped out many killer diseases and may soon zap the rest.’
6. ‘California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has been zapped from the official websites of his Austria birthplace of Graz.’
7. ‘In December
8. doctors zapped Hannah's tumor with the highest possible doses.’
9. ‘The stone was zapped and it's passing
10. so that's good.’
11. ‘It zapped the liquid and suddenly there was steam.’
12. ‘Technologically primitive Surrey suburbanites were zapped by future war weaponry; it was a horribly unequal contest.’
13. ‘It's heaped full of chlorophyll
14. which zaps halitosis fast.’
15. ‘A fascinating linguistic theory has been zapping around the internet over the past week.’
16. ‘The awareness of what was occurring zapped through me
17. and suddenly I was snapped back into my body as if I'd been shot from a slingshot.’
18. ‘I sat there watching the chat screen zapping up past me
19. just about going crosseyed trying to read it all.’
20. ‘A bolt of (cheaply superimposed) energy zaps past him.’
21. ‘No one is obliged to watch television and you can always zap between channels.’
22. ‘They have always seemed
23. I'm ashamed to say
24. a bit like the weather forecast: predictable
25. dull
26. a cue to zap to another channel.’
27. ‘With one hand he zapped through the channels on the telly while expertly opening a bottle of ale with the other.’
28. ‘Several talk of how they used to zap to another channel whenever politics came on television.’
29. ‘Sadly
30. modern TV executives are more worried about holding zapping audiences and ratings figures than about television as an arts and culture source.’
31. ‘Tuning out completely is not an option for most voters
32. unless their television sets can zap out commercials.’