糟蹋 zāota to waste Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 糟蹋 zāota to waste verb to waste or spoil things; to ruin something by not taking care of it “我觉得自己在糟蹋生命，”他告诉我。 “ wǒ juéde zìjǐ zài zāota shēngmìng,” tā gàosù wǒ. “I feel like I’m wasting my life,” he told me. to insult to insult or humiliate someone; to treat people with contempt to ravage to trample, ruin, or devastate, as crops or property during war to violate to rape or defile a woman Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions Frequency Movie subtitles 2.89 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 2.67 per million Details HSK 2.0 Level 6 Cross-References Antonym 节约 jiéyuē珍惜 zhēnxī爱护 àihùVariant of 糟踏 zāota蹧蹋 zāotà糟遢 zāotaSynonym 摧残 cuīcán糟践 zāojian Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
糟蹋 zāota to waste verb to waste or spoil things; to ruin something by not taking care of it “我觉得自己在糟蹋生命，”他告诉我。 “ wǒ juéde zìjǐ zài zāota shēngmìng,” tā gàosù wǒ. “I feel like I’m wasting my life,” he told me. to insult to insult or humiliate someone; to treat people with contempt to ravage to trample, ruin, or devastate, as crops or property during war to violate to rape or defile a woman Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions Frequency Movie subtitles 2.89 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 2.67 per million Details HSK 2.0 Level 6 Cross-References Antonym 节约 jiéyuē珍惜 zhēnxī爱护 àihùVariant of 糟踏 zāota蹧蹋 zāotà糟遢 zāotaSynonym 摧残 cuīcán糟践 zāojian Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
