凌迟 língchí death by a thousand cuts Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 凌迟 凌遲 língchí death by a thousand cuts (literary) an ancient form of capital punishment involving slow execution by cutting off pieces of the body; lingering death to decline to deteriorate; to fall into decadence or decay; to go from bad to worse to mistreat (archaic) to bully or treat someone with extreme cruelty Frequency Movie subtitles 0.210 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.551 per million Cross-References Variant of 剐刑 guǎxíng陵迟 língchíSame as 千刀万剐 qiāndāowànguǎ Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
凌迟 凌遲 língchí death by a thousand cuts (literary) an ancient form of capital punishment involving slow execution by cutting off pieces of the body; lingering death to decline to deteriorate; to fall into decadence or decay; to go from bad to worse to mistreat (archaic) to bully or treat someone with extreme cruelty Frequency Movie subtitles 0.210 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.551 per million Cross-References Variant of 剐刑 guǎxíng陵迟 língchíSame as 千刀万剐 qiāndāowànguǎ Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
