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穷思苦想
qióng​sī​kǔ​xiǎng

to rack one's brains

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
  1. 穷 窮 qióng
    thoroughly
    thoroughly; exhaustively; to investigate something to its very roots
  2. 思 sī verbadjective
    to think
    (bound form) to think; to consider; to deliberate
  3. 苦想 kǔ​xiǎng
    to think hard
    to rack one's brains; to think long and hard about something