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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *吃* | 吃* | *吃
to eat; to consume / to eat at (a cafeteria etc) / to eradicate; to destroy / to absorb / to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
HSK 1
destruction / damage / to wreck / to break / to destroy
HSK 3
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  *破* | 破* | *破
broken / damaged / worn out / lousy / rotten / to break, split or cleave / to get rid of / to destroy / to break with / to defeat / to capture (a city etc) / to expose the truth of
HSK 3
to disinfect / (computing) to destroy a computer virus
HSK 5
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  *毁* | 毁* | *毁
to destroy; to ruin / to defame; to slander
HSK 6
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  *毁* | 毁* | *毁
to destroy by fire
HSK 6
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  *残* | 残* | *残
to destroy / to spoil / to ruin / to injure / cruel / oppressive / savage / brutal / incomplete / disabled / to remain / to survive / remnant / surplus
HSK 7-9
to perish / to ruin / to destroy
HSK 7-9
to destroy (or be destroyed) by fire
HSK 7-9
to be destroyed; to become extinct; to perish; to die out / to destroy; to exterminate
HSK 7-9
to destroy (by melting or burning) / to obliterate
HSK 7-9
to destroy; to wreck
HSK 7-9
to cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom); to destroy root and branch / to eliminate completely
HSK 7-9
Yuanmingyuan, the Old Summer Palace, destroyed by the British and French army in 1860
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *摧* | 摧* | *摧
to break / to destroy / to devastate / to ravage / to repress
to damage; to wreck; to destroy
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *沮* | 沮* | *沮
to destroy / to stop
to puncture / to pierce / (fig.) to destroy (the facade concealing an unpleasant reality)
Xishi (c. 450 BC), famous Chinese beauty, foremost of the four legendary beauties 四大美女, given by King Gou Jian 勾踐|勾践 of Yue as concubine to King of Wu as part of a successful plan to destroy Wu
to attack and destroy
(of a nation) to be destroyed; to be subjugated / a fallen nation
to burn down / to destroy with fire
to burn down / to destroy with fire
to destroy
to defeat / to crush (in battle) / beaten / ruined / destroyed / in decline
to blow up / to destroy with explosives
to destroy / to smash / sabotage
to defeat / to strike down / to destroy
lit. to destroy the bridge after crossing the river (idiom) / fig. to abandon one's benefactor upon achieving one's goal
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *隳* | 隳* | *隳
destroy / overthrow
lit. trifling destroys the will (idiom); infatuation with fine details prevents one making progress / excessive attention to trivia saps the will
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *攋* | 攋* | *攋
to destroy / to rip / to tear open
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *偾* | 偾* | *偾
to instigate / to ruin / to destroy
to waste / to spoil / to destroy / to insult grievously
Pompeium, Roman town in Bay of Naples destroyed by eruption of Vesuvius in 79 / Pompey (Roman general)
lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes / fig. to waste valuable resources / to destroy wantonly beautiful things
lit. not to have breakfast until the enemy is destroyed / anxious to do battle (idiom)
lit. cut grass and pull out roots (idiom); fig. to destroy root and branch / to eradicate
to tear down / to destroy / to dismantle (a gang) / to abort (a fetus)
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  *郲* | 郲* | *郲
name of a country in Spring and Autumn period in modern Shandong, destroyed by Qi 齊|齐
to destroy
to destroy; to smash
to destroy one's family
to destroy by smashing / smashed up
Leifeng Pagoda, by West Lake until it was destroyed (also from Madam White Snake)
to destroy one's (reputation etc) / (of a device etc) to self-destruct
to destroy
to destroy the old and establish the new (idiom) / radical transformation
Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943), decisive battle of Second World War and one of the bloodiest battles in history, when the Germans failed to take Stalingrad, were then trapped and destroyed by Soviet forces
lit. even a prairie fire cannot destroy the grass - it grows again when the breeze blows (proverb) / fig. cannot be easily eliminated / abbr. to 野火春風|野火春风
phagocytosis (ingesting and destroying foreign matter)
phagocyte (cell that ingests and destroys foreign matter)
lit. to burn both fragrant orchids and stinking weeds (idiom); fig. to destroy indiscriminately the noble and common / the rain falls on the just and unjust alike
World Trade Center (the twin towers destroyed by the 9-11 terrorists)
country destroyed, its people annihilated (idiom); total destruction
subjugated people / refugee from a destroyed country
Look out for yourself, or heaven and earth will combine to destroy you. / Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.
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  *剿* | 剿* | *剿
to destroy / to extirpate
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  *圮* | 圮* | *圮
destroyed / injure
Ground Zero (refers to the site of the World Trade Center destroyed in 9-11-2001 attack)
rather destroy ten temples than a single marriage (idiom)
to annihilate / to attack and destroy / Jianji, PRC fighter plane based on Soviet MiG / usually 殲擊8型|歼击8
demolition of homes / to destroy homes (for new building projects)
to destroy in an explosion / to break (by bombing)
to destroy one's ink-slab (i.e. to write no more because others write so much better)
to burn both jade and common stone / to destroy indiscriminately (idiom)
Destroy the Four Olds (campaign of the Cultural Revolution)
lit. to restore the state and revive old families (idiom) / fig. to restore sth that has been destroyed or forgotten
Huang He Inundated Area, the area flooded in 1938 when dikes along the Yellow River were destroyed in an attempt to halt the advance of Japanese troops / (historically) Huang He floodable area


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