to pick (flowers) / to pinch / to nip / to pinch off / to clutch / (slang) to fight
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to nip off (with fingernails etc) / (fig.) to cut off (supply etc) / to disconnect
(of dogs, roosters etc) to fight / to tussle / (of people) to have an altercation with sb (physical or verbal)
to throttle / to choke to death
to count with one's fingers / on the spot calculation
to seize by the throat
to use a stopwatch
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27