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荼毒
tú​dú

to torment

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
荼毒 tú​dú
to torment
(literary) to cause great suffering; to persecute or inflict harm; originally referring to the bitterness of a wild herb and the venom of a scorpion

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.270 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.333 per million

Cross-References

Referenced by

  • 荼 tú

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)