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泼冷水
pō​lěng​shuǐ HSK7

discourage

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
泼冷水 (潑冷水) pō​lěng​shuǐ
discourage
to dampen someone's enthusiasm or spirits
pour cold water
to pour cold water on someone or something

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.720 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.508 per million

Details

HSK 3.0
Level 7

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)