Daily Dawn Vocabulary

Daily DAWN News Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning (01 April 2020)

Daily DAWN News Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning (01 April 2020)
Written by Shahzad F. Malik

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Daily Dawn Newspaper English Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning
April 01, 2020


Perpetrate (verb) ارتکاب کرنا، مجرم ہونا،انجام دینا

carry out or commit (a harmful, illegal, or immoral action).
Example: “a crime has been perpetrated against a sovereign state”
Synonyms: commit, carry out, perform, execute, do, effect, bring about, be guilty of, be to blame for,
Antonyms: baffle, come short, defeat, destroy, fail, frustrate, mar

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Maim (verb) زخمی کرنا، کاٹنا، اپاہج کرنا

wound or injure (a person or animal) so that part of the body is permanently damaged.
Example: “100,000 soldiers were killed or maimed”
Synonyms: injure, wound, hurt, disable, put out of action, incapacitate, impair, mar, mutilate
Antonyms: restore, reinvigorate, mend, strengthen


Precarious (adjective) غیر مستحکم، فرضی، رعایئتی

not securely held or in position; dangerously likely to fall or collapse.
Example: “a precarious ladder”
Synonyms: uncertain, insecure, unreliable, unsure, unpredictable, undependable, risky
Antonyms: safe, secure


Catastrophic (adjective) تباہ کن، بربادی، تباہی

involving or causing sudden great damage or suffering.
Example: “a catastrophic earthquake”
Synonyms: disastrous, calamitous, cataclysmic, ruinous, tragic, fatal, dire, awful, terrible
Antonyms: fortunate, beneficial


Embryonic (adjective) ادھورا، جینیاتی، خام

relating to an embryo.
Example: “slight differences in embryonic development”
Synonyms: fetal, unborn, unhatched
Antonyms: mature


Alienate (verb) دورکر دینا، بددلی پیدا کر دینا، برگشتہ

make (someone) feel isolated or estranged.
Example: “an urban environment which would alienate its inhabitants”
Synonyms: estrange, turn away, set apart, drive apart, isolate, detach, distance, put at a distance, set against
Antonyms: unite


Converge (verb) اکٹھا کرنا، ملنا، مائل ہونا

(of lines) tend to meet at a point.
Example: “a pair of lines of longitude are parallel at the equator but converge toward the poles”
Synonyms: meet, intersect, cross, come together, connect, link up, coincide, join, unite
Antonyms: separate, diverge


Harness (verb) ہتھیار، کنٹرول، بگھی کے جانور

put a harness on (a horse or other draught animal).
Example: “how to groom a horse and harness it”
Synonyms: hitch up, put something in harness, saddle, yoke, couple
Antonyms: unhitch


Abridge (verb) مختصر کرنا، گھٹانا

shorten (a piece of writing) without losing the sense.
Example: “the introduction is abridged from the author’s afterword to the novel”
Synonyms: shorten, cut, cut short/down, curtail, truncate, lessen, trim, crop, clip, pare down
Antonyms: lengthen, expand on, pad out


Prolong (verb) طول دینا، بڑھانا، جاری رکھنا

extend the duration of.
Example: “an idea which prolonged the life of the engine by many years”
Synonyms: lengthen, make longer, extend, extend the duration of, draw out, drag out, protract, spin out
Antonyms: shorten


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