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charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *磨* | 磨* | *磨
to rub / to grind / to polish / to sharpen / to wear down / to die out / to waste time / to pester / to insist
HSK 6
a torment / a trial / tribulation / a cross (to bear) / well-tried
HSK 7-9
to torment; to torture
HSK 7-9
to suffer wear and tear; to deteriorate through use; to wear out
HSK 7-9
to polish; to burnish; to shine
HSK 7-9
to ponder / to mull over / to think through / Taiwan pr. [zhuo2 mo2]
HSK 7-9
to break in / to wear in
HSK 7-9
milling / to grind / to polish by grinding / to abrade / whetstone / pestle
wear resistant
wear and tear / wearing out by friction
grinding machine / grinder
mill
to rub lightly / to move slowly; to dawdle; to dillydally / to pester; to nag
to mill / to grind / grinding stone
lit. to sharpen one's sword (idiom) / fig. to prepare to attack; to be getting ready for battle
lit. with money, you can get a devil to turn a millstone (idiom) / fig. with money, you can get anything done; money talks
lit. sharpening the axe won't make the wood-splitting take longer (idiom) / fig. time invested in preparations is not lost / a beard well lathered is half shaved
to hone (a knife)
to carve and polish (jade) / to polish and refine a literary work
to grumble / to chatter away incessantly
to temper oneself / to steel oneself / self-discipline / endurance
annoying / bothersome / to fret / to be peevish
rod mill
to grind one's teeth (during sleep) / pointless arguing / (coll.) molar
to sharpen on grindstone / to improve oneself by practice
to wear out the skin of one's teeth (idiom); pointlessly blather / to talk incessant nonsense / blah blah
to obliterate / to erase
variant of 摩擦
Shuimogou district (Uighur: Shuymogu Rayoni) of Urumqi city 烏魯木齊市|乌鲁木齐市, Xinjiang
indelible
lower millstone / tray of a mill
to dillydally / slow-going
whetstone (for honing knives)
to coax and pester (idiom) / to wheedle / to cajole
lit. to play together ear to ear and temple to temple (idiom) / fig. (of a boy and a girl) to play together often during childhood
lit. to sharpen one's spear only before going into battle (idiom) / fig. to make preparations only at the last moment
grindstone
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *磨* | 磨* | *磨
grindstone / to grind / to turn round
terrazzo
to wear down / to sap / to whittle away / to while away / to idle away
erosion / abrasion
karma (loanword)
to polish
rotary grindstone
whetstone / millstone
to torment / to torture
lit. to kill the donkey when the grinding is done (idiom) / fig. to get rid of sb once he has ceased to be useful
ball mill
to grind one's way through an ink stone / to persevere in a difficult task (idiom) / to study diligently (idiom)
dawdling / to waste time
lit. cutting and polishing (idiom) / fig. to learn by exchanging ideas or experiences
abrasive material
attrition rate
to grind an iron bar down to a fine needle (idiom); fig. to persevere in a difficult task / to study diligently
the road to happiness is strewn with setbacks (idiom)
to grumble / to chatter
variant of 蘑菇
Shuimogou district (Uighur: Shuymogu Rayoni) of Urumqi city 烏魯木齊市|乌鲁木齐市, Xinjiang
to pester / to bother sb incessantly / to delay / to prevaricate
to argue pointlessly / to talk incessant nonsense / to blather
to feel embarrassed
mill; grain mill; millstone
to idle on the job
variant of 摩拳擦掌
to scrub with an abrasive / to sand / frosted (e.g. glass)
sluggish / delaying
electric mill (for grinding wheat etc)
If you work at it hard enough, you can grind an iron bar into a needle. / cf idiom 磨杵成針|磨杵成针, to grind an iron bar down to a fine needle (idiom); fig. to persevere in a difficult task / to study diligently
abrasive / grinding material
millstone grit
sander; sanding machine
(idiom) a blade will get rusty if it is not sharpened; a man will fall behind if he doesn't study
premolar tooth
UN convention against torture and cruel treatment (ratified by PRC in 1988)
(proverb) A lazy person will find many excuses to delay working / lit. When a lazy donkey is turning a grindstone, it takes a lot of time off for peeing and pooing
to kill time
freshly ground
abrasive (material)
abrasive disk / sanding disk
(dialect) to be very slow; to dawdle
(dialect) to dawdle / to waste time / also written 墨跡|墨迹
miller
grinder's disease / silicosis / also written 矽末病
to feel unembarrassed; to be at ease / (dialect) to be convinced; to come round
to sharpen / to grind (knife blades)
to torture / to torment
milling machine
millstone grit / coarse sandstone
facial scrub
incessant complaining
to talk until one is blue in the face
to wear out one's lips (idiom) / to talk until one is blue in the face / to repeat again and again
to grind up
pumice stone
a polished stone (neolithic) implement
friction blister
molar tooth
whetstone (for honing knives)

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