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martyr | strine |

As a noun martyr

is one who willingly accepts being put to death for adhering openly to one's religious beliefs; notably, saints canonized after martyrdom.

As a verb martyr

is to make someone into a martyr by putting him or her to death for adhering to, or acting in accordance with, some belief, especially religious; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession.

As a proper noun strine is

(australia|new zealand|uk|informal|jocular) broad australian english; broad australian rendered as eye dialect.

martyr

English

(wikipedia martyr)

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who willingly accepts being put to death for adhering openly to one's religious beliefs; notably, saints canonized after martyrdom.
    • Saint Stephen was the first Christian martyr .
  • (by extension) One who sacrifices his or her life, station, or something of great personal value, for the sake of principle or to sustain a cause.
  • (with a prepositional phrase of cause) One who suffers greatly and/or constantly, even involuntarily.
    • Stan is a martyr''' to arthritis, Chris a ' martyr to Stan's endless moaning about it.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1937 , author=AJ Cronin , title=The Citadel , passage=He'd been a martyr to asthma all his life.}}
  • One who is killed or suffers greatly because of an identity or position, e.g., a young prince killed when his father, the king, is deposed for the purpose of preventing the restoration of the monarchy later.

    • Synonyms

    * shaheed, shahid

    Antonyms

    * confessor

    Derived terms

    {{der3, martyr complex , martyrdom , martyress , martyrial , martyrish , martyrizate , martyrize , martyrizer , martyrly , martyrolatry , martyrless , martyrship}}

    Related terms

    {{rel3, martyrdom , martyrion , martyrium , martyrologe , martyrologue , martyrology , martyry , protomartyr}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make someone into a martyr by putting him or her to death for adhering to, or acting in accordance with, some belief, especially religious; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession.
  • To persecute.
    • ''Some religious and other minorities were martyred until extinction.
  • To torment; to torture.
    • The lovely Amoret, whose gentle heart
    Thou martyrest with sorrow and with smart. — Spenser

    Synonyms

    * martyrize

    Derived terms

    * martyrer

    strine

    English

    (wikipedia Strine)

    Alternative forms

    * strine

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (Australia, New Zealand, UK, informal, jocular) Broad Australian English; broad Australian rendered as eye dialect.
  • * 1982 , J. C. Wells, Accents of English'', Volume 3: ''Beyond the British Isles , page 595,
    • Several Strine' forms depend on an assumed equivalence between '''Strine fortis consonants and Cultivated/RP lenis ones, thus ''garbler mince'' (couple of minutes), ''egg jelly (actually). It is doubtful whether this reflects any real phonetic difference.
  • * 1989 July 8, Ariadne'', , page 120,
    • A team at Griffith University in Bribane is working on what the university?s newspaper callls a bionic snorter. Translating into English from Strine , this is a bionic hooter, conk, bugle or nose.
  • * 1992 , Gillian Bottomley, From Another Place: Migration and the Politics of Culture , 2009, page 133,
    • Dell?Oso describes the encounter of an Asian woman with a surly bus driver whose only language is Strine (a form of Australian English, barely intelligible to many of the native-speakers).

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