zì​qǔ​miè​wáng

to court destruction

  • created sense approved 自取灭亡/自取滅亡 · zì​qǔ​miè​wáng · to court destruction — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    自取灭亡 / 自取滅亡

    zì​qǔ​miè​wáng

    to court destruction

    to court disaster or invite one's own destruction through one's own actions; to dig one's own grave

    自取 (literal) → 自取 · zì​qǔ · to bring upon oneself 灭亡 (literal) → 灭亡/滅亡 · miè​wáng · to be destroyed

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense