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吞噬

tūnshì

to swallow

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to swallow

02

to engulf

03

to gobble up

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 吞噬 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 吞噬 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

房子被火吞噬了。fáng zi bèi huǒ tūn shì le。

The house was in flames.

她是一个非常娇小的女孩，但她真的自己抱著中音萨克斯。不过，我忍不住想像这个东西缠绕包裹住她，并像蟒蛇般的吞噬她。tā shì yí gè fēi cháng jiāo xiǎo de nǚ hái， dàn tā zhēn de zì jǐ bào zhù zhōng yīn sà kè sī。 bù guò， wǒ rěn bú zhù xiǎng xiàng zhè ge dōng xī chán rào bāo guǒ zhù tā， bìng xiàng mǎng shé bān de tūn shì tā。

She was a tiny girl, but she really held her own on the baritone sax. Nonetheless, I couldn't help but imagine the thing wrapping itself around her and devouring her like a boa constrictor.

许多太平洋岛国正面临著被海水吞噬的危机。这也警惕著全球七十亿人：维护地球和生态是非常重要的！xǔ duō tài píng yáng dǎo guó zhèng miàn lín zhù bèi hǎi shuǐ tūn shì de wēi jī。 zhè yě jǐng tì zhù quán qiú qī shí yì rén： wéi hù dì qiú hé shēng tài shì fēi cháng zhòng yào de！

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 吞噬.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 吞噬.

Directly before

  • 般的吞噬1
  • 海水吞噬1
  • 火吞噬1

Directly after

  • 吞噬她1
  • 吞噬的1
  • 吞噬了1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 吞噬

What does 吞噬 mean in Chinese?

吞噬 (tūnshì) means to swallow.

How do you pronounce 吞噬?

吞噬 is pronounced tūnshì.

Is 吞噬 an HSK word?

吞噬 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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