1 to dry (of weather, paint, cement etc)

2 desiccation

3 dull

4 uninteresting

5 arid

1 surname Bao

1 violence

2 force

3 violent

1 to expose

2 to reveal

3 to lay bare

4 also pr. [pù lù]

1 dry and dull

2 uninteresting

3 dry-as-dust

1 one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp

2 sporadic effort

3 short attention span

1 not to submit to force (idiom); to defy threats and violence

1 lit. dry mouth and tongue (idiom); to talk too much

1 lit. fight tigers with one's bare hands and wade across raging rivers (idiom)

2 fig. to display foolhardy courage

1 to tax by force and extort levies (idiom); to screw taxes out of the people by force