吞噬 tūnshì to engulf Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 吞噬 tūnshì to engulf verb (metaphorical) to claim a life; to be consumed by emotions like loneliness; to be overwhelmed by a situation 他被仇恨吞噬。 tā bèi chóuhèn tūnshì. He was consumed by hatred. to swallow up verb to swallow; to engulf; to gobble up; to submerge or consume entirely 有东西在吞噬着你。 yǒu dōngxi zài tūnshì zhe nǐ. Something is eating away at you. to annex to aggressively annex or take over territory or property, such as through war or corporate takeover to phagocytose (medicine) to surround and destroy bacteria or other foreign matter by cells like white blood cells Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions Frequency Movie subtitles 4.35 per million appears in 2% of films Written text 5.93 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
吞噬 tūnshì to engulf verb (metaphorical) to claim a life; to be consumed by emotions like loneliness; to be overwhelmed by a situation 他被仇恨吞噬。 tā bèi chóuhèn tūnshì. He was consumed by hatred. to swallow up verb to swallow; to engulf; to gobble up; to submerge or consume entirely 有东西在吞噬着你。 yǒu dōngxi zài tūnshì zhe nǐ. Something is eating away at you. to annex to aggressively annex or take over territory or property, such as through war or corporate takeover to phagocytose (medicine) to surround and destroy bacteria or other foreign matter by cells like white blood cells Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions Frequency Movie subtitles 4.35 per million appears in 2% of films Written text 5.93 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
