Results for “吞”

to swallow / to take

to swallow / to engulf / to gobble up

to annex

to embezzle / to swallow up / to engulf

to swallow / to gulp

to devour

to hum and haw (idiom) / to mumble as if hiding sth / to speak and break off, then start again / to hold sth back

to swallow whole (idiom) / fig. to apply uncritically

to wolf down one's food (idiom) / to devour ravenously / to gorge oneself

to hog / to keep everything for oneself

to submit to humiliation (idiom) / to suffer in silence / to swallow one's anger / to grin and bear it

very slow / exasperatingly slow

to annex / to swallow (up) / to embezzle

to devour

to take in and send out (in large quantities)

throughput

(biology) phagocytosis

phagocyte (cell that ingests and destroys foreign matter)

dysphagia (medicine)

(loanword) tuna

to swallow / to take (medicine)

to absorb

to swallow semen

to swallow one's cries

see 忍氣吞聲|忍气吞声[rěn qì tūn shēng]

to commit suicide by swallowing gold

to swallow clouds and blow out fog (idiom) / to blow cigarette or opium smoke

(linguistics) elision

a man who is never content is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant (idiom)

to swallow up / to annex / to merge

(TCM) belching and acid reflux

putrid belching with regurgitation of stomach acid (medical term)

to swallow whole / (fig.) to swallow (lies etc)

to swallow in one gulp (idiom) / (fig.) to accept without thinking / to lap up

macrophage

microphage (a type of white blood cell)

very slow

tepid / lukewarm / (fig.) apathetic / half-hearted / sluggish / mild-tempered

to misappropriate (public funds etc) / to embezzle

(lit.) to nibble like a silkworm or swallow like a whale (idiom) / (fig.) to seize (territory etc) incrementally or wholesale