蚕食 (蠶食)
cán shí
Pinyin

Definition

蚕食 (蠶食)
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cán shí
  1. to nibble away at (as silkworm consume leaves)
  2. fig. to embezzle progressively

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

美食
měi shí
  1. 1 culinary delicacy
  2. 2 fine food
  3. 3 gourmet food
零食
líng shí
  1. 1 between-meal nibbles
  2. 2 snacks
食
shí
  1. 1 to eat
  2. 2 food
  3. 3 animal feed
  4. 4 eclipse
食品
shí pǐn
  1. 1 foodstuff
  2. 2 food
  3. 3 provisions
  4. 4 classifier: 种 zhǒng
食物
shí wù
  1. 1 food
  2. 2 classifier: 种 zhǒng

Idioms (20)

三旬九食
sān xún jiǔ shí
  1. 1 lit. to have only nine meals in thirty days (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. (of a family) on the brink of starvation
  3. 3 in dire straits
人为财死，鸟为食亡
rén wèi cái sǐ , niǎo wèi shí wáng
  1. 1 lit. human beings will die for riches, just as birds will for food (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. man will do anything in his means to become rich
因噎废食
yīn yē fèi shí
  1. 1 lit. not eating for fear of choking (idiom); fig. to cut off one's nose to spite one's face
  2. 2 to avoid sth essential because of a slight risk
宵衣旰食
xiāo yī gàn shí
  1. 1 to dress before light and not eat before dark (idiom)
  2. 2 diligently attending to official matters
寝食难安
qǐn shí nán ān
  1. 1 lit. cannot rest or eat in peace (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. extremely worried and troubled

Sample Sentences

那天晚上，她为了到学校见我，从医院偷偷跑出来。在湖边，她哭个不停，我渐渐地受不了她了。我脑中一片混乱，感觉每一个细胞都在被蚕食，越来越无法控制自己。我把她推进了湖里......
nà tiān wǎnshang ，tā wèile dào xuéxiào jiàn wǒ ，cóng yīyuàn tōutōu pǎo chūlai 。zài hú biān ，tā kū ge bùtíng ，wǒ jiānjiān de shòubuliǎo tā le 。wǒ nǎo zhōng yī piàn hùnluàn ，gǎnjué měi yī ge xìbāo dōu zài bèi cánshí ，yuèláiyuè wúfǎ kòngzhì zìjǐ 。wǒ bǎ tā tuījìn le hú lǐ ......
That night, in order to come to the school and see me, she sneaked her way out of the hospital. At the lakeside, she wouldn't stop crying. Little by little, I couldn't take it anymore. My head was filled with chaos and it felt like my cells were slowly eating away at my brain. More and more, I was losing control of myself. I grabbed her and pushed her into the lake.
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