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HSK
to hog / to keep everything for oneself
tepid; lukewarm / (fig.) apathetic; half-hearted; sluggish / mild-tempered
to swallow in one gulp (idiom) / (fig.) to accept without thinking / to lap up
to swallow / to engulf / to gobble up
to hum and haw (idiom); to mumble as if hiding sth / to speak and break off, then start again / to hold sth back
to annex
to annex / to swallow (up) / to embezzle
to misappropriate (public funds etc) / to embezzle
to devour
to swallow whole / (fig.) to swallow (lies etc)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *吞* | 吞* | *吞
to swallow / to take
HSK 6
to swallow / to take (medicine)
throughput
macrophage
to devour
to take in and send out (in large quantities)
to swallow up / to annex / to merge
to commit suicide by swallowing gold
microphage (a type of white blood cell)
to submit to humiliation (idiom); to suffer in silence / to swallow one's anger / to grin and bear it
very slow
to wolf down one's food (idiom); to devour ravenously / to gorge oneself
to swallow / to gulp
to absorb
very slow / exasperatingly slow
to swallow one's cries
putrid belching with regurgitation of stomach acid (medical term)
tuna (loanword)
(biology) phagocytosis
to embezzle / to swallow up / to engulf
Tunmi Sanghuzha (6th century AD), originator of the Tibetan script
tuna (loanword)
to harbor a grudge with deep-seated hatred (idiom)
(linguistics) elision
phagocyte (cell that ingests and destroys foreign matter)
wonton
dysphagia (medicine)
to swallow clouds and blow out fog (idiom) / to blow cigarette or opium smoke
a man who is never content is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant (idiom)
(TCM) belching and acid reflux
Baton Rouge, capital of Louisiana
to swallow whole (idiom); fig. to apply uncritically
lit. to nibble like a silkworm or swallow like a whale (idiom) / fig. to seize (territory etc) incrementally or wholesale
to swallow semen


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