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  *爛* | 爛* | *爛
soft; mushy / well-cooked and soft / to rot; to decompose / rotten / worn out / chaotic; messy / utterly; thoroughly / crappy; bad
HSK 5
to mash / to beat to a pulp
to glitter / brilliant / splendid
HSK 7-9
to rot / to putrefy / (fig.) corrupt
HSK 7-9
to tear up / to tear to pieces
(slang) (Tw) to bullshit / to fool
mold / rot
lit. until the seas dry up and stones go soft (idiom) / fig. forever; until the end of time
thoroughly mashed; mushy / smashed up; broken into pieces / (fig.) abysmal; shockingly bad
worn-out; dilapidated; tattered; ragged / (coll.) rubbish; junk
to bite off more than one can chew (idiom)
splendid / gorgeous / dazzling
rotten
(neologism c. 2014) (slang) to stop striving (esp. when one knows one cannot succeed); to let it all go to hell; (sports) to tank
to fester; to ulcerate
rotting; decaying
(slang) stupid; ridiculous
to smash
to destroy by smashing / smashed up
dissipated / rotten / decaying
to compare two unsatisfactory things / to argue that others have similar or worse faults (as a response to criticism) / whataboutery
(of food etc) soft; pulpy / (Tw) (of a person) lacking drive; shiftless; lazy
lit. rafters that jut out rot first (idiom) / fig. anyone who makes himself conspicuous will be targeted for attack
(Tw) (slang) to be ticked off by (sb or sth); to be pissed at (sb or sth); to be in a foul mood; down in the dumps (from Taiwanese 揬𡳞, Tai-lo pr. [tu̍h-lān])
smashed up; broken into pieces


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