June 2020

Daily DAWN News Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning (10 June 2020)

Daily DAWN News Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning (10 June 2020)
Written by Shahzad F. Malik

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Daily Dawn Newspaper English Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning
June 10, 2020


Overwhelm (verb) گھیرے میں لے لینا، مغلوب، دبا دینا

bury or drown beneath a huge mass of something, especially water.
Example: “floodwaters overwhelmed hundreds of houses”
Synonyms: swamp, submerge, engulf, bury, deluge, flood, inundate, clog, saturate,
Antonyms: dehydrate, dry, parch


Harrow (verb) اجاڑنا، تباہ کرنا، برباد کرنا، لوٹنا

cause distress to.
Example: “Todd could take it, whereas I’m harrowed by it”
Synonyms: distress, trouble, afflict, grieve, torment, torture, crucify, rack, sear, pain,
Antonyms: calm, comfort, heartening


Hurtle (verb) زناٹے سے گزر جانا، پھینکنا، بھاگ جانا

move or cause to move at high speed, typically in an uncontrolled manner.
Example: “a runaway car hurtled towards them”
Synonyms: speed, rush, race, chase, bolt, bowl, dash, career, careen, cannon, sweep
Antonyms: go slowly


Catastrophe (noun) بربادی، تباہی، انقلاب عظیم، تباہ کن

an event causing great and usually sudden damage or suffering; a disaster.
Example: “an environmental catastrophe”
Synonyms: disaster, calamity, cataclysm, crisis, holocaust, ruin, ruination, tragedy
Antonyms: salvation, godsend


Archaic (adjective) قدیم، دقیانوسی، بہت پرانا

very old or old-fashioned.
Example: “prisons are run on archaic methods”
Synonyms: obsolete, obsolescent, out of date, anachronistic, old-fashioned, outmoded, behind the times
Antonyms: new, modern


Jettison (verb) دستبرداری، ترک کرنا، جہاز کو ہلکا کرنے کےلئے سامان پھینکنا

abandon or discard (someone or something that is no longer wanted).
Example: “the scheme was jettisoned”
Synonyms: dump, drop, ditch, discharge, eject, throw out, empty out, pour out, tip out
Antonyms: load, keep, retain


Vague (adjective) مبہم، غیر واضح، گول مول

of uncertain, indefinite, or unclear character or meaning.
Example: “many patients suffer vague symptoms”
Synonyms: indistinct, indefinite, indeterminate, unclear, hazy, cloudy, fuzzy, misty
Antonyms: clear, precise, firm, sharpness


Recede (verb) پسپا ہو جانا، پیچھے ہٹنا

go or move back or further away from a previous position.
Example: “the floodwaters had receded”
Synonyms: retreat, go back, move back, move further off, move away, withdraw, ebb
Antonyms: advance, approach


Scorching (adjective) جلتا ہوا، جلانے والا

very hot.
Example: “the scorching July sun”
Synonyms: extremely hot, red-hot, unbearably hot, baking (hot), blazing, flaming, fiery
Antonyms: freezing


Slander (verb) تہمت، بہتان، بدگوئی

make false and damaging statements about (someone).
Example: “they were accused of slandering the head of state”
Synonyms: defame, defame someone’s character, blacken someone’s name, give someone a bad name
Antonyms: acclaim, praise


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