剥蚀
bō shí
Pinyin

Definition

剥蚀
 - 
bō shí
  1. to corrode
  2. to expose by corrosion (geology)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

qīn shí
  1. 1 to erode
  2. 2 to corrode
bāo
  1. 1 to peel
  2. 2 to skin
  3. 3 to shell
  4. 4 to shuck
bō duó
  1. 1 to deprive
  2. 2 to expropriate
  3. 3 to strip (sb of his property)
bō xuē
  1. 1 to exploit
  2. 2 exploitation
bō diào
  1. 1 to peel off
  2. 2 to strip off
bāo pí
  1. 1 to skin
  2. 2 to flay
  3. 3 to excoriate
  4. 4 to peel
  5. 5 to bark at sb
  6. 6 to physically punish sb
bō luò
  1. 1 to peel off
bō lí
  1. 1 to peel
  2. 2 to strip
  3. 3 to peel off
  4. 4 to come off (of tissue, skin, covering etc)
pán bō
  1. 1 to exploit
  2. 2 to practice usury
mó shí
  1. 1 erosion
  2. 2 abrasion
fǔ shí
  1. 1 corrosion
  2. 2 to corrode (degrade chemically)
  3. 3 to rot
  4. 4 corruption
quán shí
  1. 1 total eclipse
bō xuē zhě
  1. 1 exploiter (of labor)
bō shí
  1. 1 to corrode
  2. 2 to expose by corrosion (geology)
rì shí
  1. 1 variant of 日食[rì shí]
yuè shí
  1. 1 variant of 月食[yuè shí]
chōng shí
  1. 1 to erode
  2. 2 erosion
hǎi shí
  1. 1 coastal erosion
  2. 2 marine abrasion
shēng tūn huó bō
  1. 1 to swallow whole (idiom); fig. to apply uncritically
fǔ shí jì
  1. 1 a corrosive (chemical)

Idioms (3)

偷鸡不成蚀把米
tōu jī bù chéng shí bǎ mǐ
  1. 1 lit. to try to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice used to lure it (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to try to gain an advantage only to end up worse off
  3. 3 to go for wool and come back shorn
抽丝剥茧
chōu sī bāo jiǎn
  1. 1 lit. to spin silk from cocoons
  2. 2 fig. to make a painstaking investigation (idiom)
生吞活剥
shēng tūn huó bō
  1. 1 to swallow whole (idiom); fig. to apply uncritically

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