堵死
dǔ sǐ
Pinyin
Definition
堵死
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- to block (a road)
- to plug (a hole)
- to stop up
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to die
- 2 impassable
- 3 uncrossable
- 4 inflexible
- 5 rigid
- 6 extremely
- 7 damned
- 1 to freeze to death
- 2 to die off in winter
- 1 half dead (of torment, hunger, tiredness etc)
- 2 (tired) to death
- 3 (terrified) out of one's wits
- 4 (beaten) to within an inch of one's life
- 5 (knock) the daylights out of sb
- 1 go to hell!
- 2 drop dead!
- 1 to block up (a road, pipe etc)
- 2 to stop up (a hole)
- 3 (fig.) (of a person) choked up with anxiety or stress
- 4 wall (literary)
- 5 (classifier for walls)
Idioms (20)
不到黄河心不死
- 1 lit. not to stop until one reaches the Yellow River (idiom)
- 2 fig. to persevere until one reaches one's goal
- 3 to keep going while some hope is left
不是鱼死就是网破
- 1 lit. either the fish dies or the net gets torn (idiom)
- 2 fig. it's a life-and-death struggle
- 3 it's either him or me
不知死活
- 1 to act recklessly (idiom)
不要在一棵树上吊死
- 1 don't insist on only taking one road to Rome (idiom)
- 2 there's more than one way to skin a cat
九死一生
- 1 nine deaths and still alive (idiom); a narrow escape
- 2 new lease of life