Results for “倒”

(coll.) forget it / drop it / let it go / to pull down

(coll.) but on the contrary / but instead

to baffle / to confound / to stump

to prostrate oneself / to fall on one's knees / to grovel

to knock down / to knock over / to run over (sb)

to kneel down / to sink to one's knees / to grovel

to overturn trunks and boxes / to make a thorough search (idiom)

to lie down

to refute / to demolish (an argument, theory etc)

to have the advantage overwhelmingly on one side / to support unconditionally

lit. overturning seas and rivers (idiom) / fig. overwhelming / earth-shattering / in a spectacular mess

(of cereal crops) to collapse and lie flat

to shift holidays, taking a weekday off

inversion

to transfer grain from a store (e.g. to sun it) / voice breaking (of male opera singer in puberty)

(optics) inverted image

barb / barbed tip (e.g. of fishhook)

instead / on the contrary / contrary (to expectations)

to violate the natural order / to defy social norms

Wrightia tinctoria (flowering plant in Apocynaceae family, common names dyer's oleander or pala indigo)

to gasp (with amazement or shock etc) / to feel a chill run down one's spine / to have one's hairs stand on end

(of a singer) to lose one's voice / (male opera singer's) voice change (at puberty)

to ruminate (of cows)

(of cows) to ruminate

to fall to the ground

to collapse (of building)

mirror writing / upside down writing

rewind (media player)

reverse order / inverted order

the north-facing room opposite the master's in a siheyuan 四合院[sì hé yuàn]

to move (things around) / to buy and sell at a profit (derog.)

jeering / booing / catcalls

lit. to hang upside down / fig. in dire straits

lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom) / fig. extremely critical situation / dire straits

lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom) / fig. extremely critical situation / dire straits

lit. the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom) / fig. extremely critical situation / dire straits

to lay down arms

to shift from one hand to the other / to change hands (of merchandise)

lit. to strike with a muckrake (idiom), cf Pigsy 豬八戒|猪八戒 in Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记 / fig. to counterattack / to make bogus accusations (against one's victim)

to play the market / to speculate (on financial markets) / to profiteer