荼毒
tú​dú

to torment

  • created sense approved 荼毒 · tú​dú · to torment — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    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

    荼 (literal) → 荼 · tú · to maltreat 毒 (literal) → 毒 · dú · to poison

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

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