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Definitions

  1. 1. to rein in
  2. 2. to compel
  3. 3. to force
  4. 4. to carve
  5. 5. to engrave
  6. 6. (literary) to command
  7. 7. to lead
  8. 8. bridle

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Words Containing 勒

伏尔加格勒
fú ěr jiā gé lè

Volgograd, Russian city on the Volga River 伏爾加河|伏尔加河[fú ěr jiā hé]

俄勒冈
é lè gāng

Oregon

俄勒冈州
é lè gāng zhōu

Oregon

儒勒·凡尔纳
rú lè · fán ěr nà

Jules Verne (1828-1905), French novelist specializing in science fiction and adventure stories

克勒
kè lè

Keller or Köhler (name)

克孜勒
kè zī lè

Kyzyl, capital of Tuva 圖瓦|图瓦[tú wǎ]

克孜勒苏
kè zī lè sū

Qizilsu or Kizilsu Kyrgyz autonomous prefecture in Xinjiang

克孜勒苏柯尔克孜自治州
kè zī lè sū kē ěr kè zī zì zhì zhōu

Qizilsu or Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang

克孜勒苏河
kè zī lè sū hé

Qizilsu or Kizilsu River in Xinjiang

克莱斯勒
kè lái sī lè

Chrysler

克莱斯勒汽车公司
kè lái sī lè qì chē gōng sī

Chrysler

列宁格勒
liè níng gé lè

Leningrad, name of Russian city Saint Petersburg 聖彼得堡|圣彼得堡 1923-1991

利勒哈默尔
lì lè hā mò ěr

Lillehammer (city in Norway)

加勒比
jiā lè bǐ

Caribbean

加勒比国家联盟
jiā lè bǐ guó jiā lián méng

Association of Caribbean States

加勒比海
jiā lè bǐ hǎi

Caribbean Sea

加里宁格勒
jiā lǐ níng gé lè

Kaliningrad, town on Baltic now in Russian republic

加里宁格勒州
jiā lǐ níng gé lè zhōu

Kaliningrad Oblast

勒令
lè lìng

to order

勒克斯
lè kè sī

lux (unit of illuminance) (loanword)

勒勒车
lēi lēi chē

wagon (yoked to beast of burden)

勒哈费尔
lè hā fèi ěr

Le Havre (French town)

勒威耶
lè wēi yē

Urbain Le Verrier (1811-1877), French mathematician and astronomer who predicted the position of Neptune

勒戒
lè jiè

to force sb to give up (a drug)

勒毙
lēi bì

to strangle or throttle to death

勒斯波斯
lè sī bō sī

Lesbos (Greek island in Aegean)

勒斯波斯岛
lè sī bō sī dǎo

Lesbos (Greek island in Aegean)

勒死
lēi sǐ

to strangle

勒杀
lēi shā

to strangle

勒索
lè suǒ

to blackmail

勒索罪
lè suǒ zuì

blackmail

勒索软件
lè suǒ ruǎn jiàn

ransomware (computing)

勒维夫
lè wéi fu

Lviv (Lvov), town in western Ukraine

勒维纳斯
lè wéi nà sī

Levinas (philosopher)

勒紧
lēi jǐn

to tighten

勒紧裤带
lēi jǐn kù dài

to tighten one's belt

勒脖子
lēi bó zi

to throttle

勒逼
lè bī

to coerce

勒马
lè mǎ

to guide a horse with the reins

勒庞
lè páng

Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928-), French Front National extreme right-wing politician

勾勒
gōu lè

to draw the outline of

卡特彼勒公司
kǎ tè bǐ lè gōng sī

Caterpillar Inc.

厄勒布鲁
è lè bù lǔ

Örebro (city in Sweden)

厄勒海峡
è lè hǎi xiá

Øresund

吉勒
jí lè

Gilles (name)

培勒兹
péi lè zī

Perez (name)

塔勒
tǎ lè

thaler or taler (currency of various Germanic countries in 15th-19th centuries) (loanword)

塞勒姆
sāi lè mǔ

Salem, capital of Oregon

多普勒
duō pǔ lè

Christian Johann Doppler, Austrian physicist who discovered the Doppler effect

多普勒效应
duō pǔ lè xiào yìng

the Doppler effect

尼勒克
ní lè kè

Nilka County or Nilqa nahiyisi in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州[yī lí hā sà kè zì zhì zhōu], Xinjiang

尼勒克县
ní lè kè xiàn

Nilka County or Nilqa nahiyisi in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州[yī lí hā sà kè zì zhì zhōu], Xinjiang

巴勒斯坦
bā lè sī tǎn

Palestine

巴勒斯坦民族权力机构
bā lè sī tǎn mín zú quán lì jī gòu

Palestinian National Authority

巴勒斯坦解放组织
bā lè sī tǎn jiě fàng zǔ zhī

Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)

巴勒莫
bā lè mò

Palermo, Italy

布加勒斯特
bù jiā lè sī tè

Bucharest, capital of Romania

希特勒
xī tè lè

Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)

席勒
xí lè

Schiller (name)

库尔勒
kù ěr lè

Korla Shehiri, Korla or Ku'erle City, capital of Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州[bā yīn guō léng měng gǔ zì zhì zhōu], Xinjiang

库尔勒市
kù ěr lè shì

Korla Shehiri, Korla or Ku'erle City, capital of Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州[bā yīn guō léng měng gǔ zì zhì zhōu]

庵摩勒
ān mó lè

see 餘甘子|余甘子[yú gān zǐ]

弗洛勒斯岛
fú luò lēi sī dǎo

Flores, Indonesia

弗里德里希·席勒
fú lǐ dé lǐ xī · xí lè

Friedrich Schiller or Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), German poet and dramatist

弥勒
mí lè

Mile county in Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous prefecture, Yunnan

弥勒佛
mí lè fó

Maitreya

弥勒县
mí lè xiàn

Mile county in Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous prefecture, Yunnan

弥勒菩萨
mí lè pú sà

Maitreya Bodhisattva

德勒巴克
dé lè bā kè

Drøbak (city in Akershus, Norway)

德勒兹
dé lè zī

Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), French philosopher

德布勒森
dé bù lè sēn

Debrecen, Hungary's second city, capital of Hajdú-Bihar county 豪伊杜·比豪爾州|豪伊杜·比豪尔州[háo yī dù · bì háo ěr zhōu] in east Hungary on the border with Romania

恩培多克勒
ēn péi duō kè lēi

Empedocles (490-430 BC), Greek Sicilian pre-Socratic philosopher

惠斯勒
huì sī lè

Whistler (name)

悬崖勒马
xuán yá lè mǎ

lit. to rein in the horse at the edge of the precipice (idiom)

我勒个去
wǒ lè ge qù

(slang) shoot!

托勒密
tuō lè mì

Ptolemy, kings of Egypt after the partition of Alexander the Great's Empire in 305 BC

托勒密王
tuō lè mì wáng

Ptolemy, kings of Egypt after the partition of Alexander the Great's Empire in 305 BC

托勒玫
tuō lè méi

Ptolemy or Claudius Ptolemaeus (c. 90-c. 168), Alexandrian Greek astronomer, mathematician and geographer, author of the Almagest 天文學大成|天文学大成

拿撒勒
ná sǎ lè

Nazareth (in Biblical Palestine)

掳人勒赎
lǔ rén lè shú

to kidnap for ransom

敲诈勒索
qiāo zhà lè suǒ

extortion and blackmail (idiom)

斯卡伯勒礁
sī kǎ bó lè jiāo

Scarborough Shoal (Philippines' name for Huangyan Island)

斯大林格勒
sī dà lín gé lè

Stalingrad, former name of Volvograd 伏爾加格勒|伏尔加格勒 (1925-1961)

斯大林格勒战役
sī dà lín gé lè zhàn yì

Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943), decisive battle of Second World War and one of the bloodiest battles in history, when the Germans failed to take Stalingrad, were then trapped and destroyed by Soviet forces

斯大林格勒会战
sī dà lín gé lè huì zhàn

Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943)

曼德勒
màn dé lè

Mandalay, province and second city of Myanmar (Burma)

格勒
gé lè

(onom.) laughing sound

格勒诺布尔
gé lè nuò bù ěr

Grenoble (French town)

比勒费尔德
bǐ lè fèi ěr dé

Bielefeld (city in Germany)

比勒陀利亚
bǐ lè tuó lì yà

Pretoria, capital of South Africa

法勒斯
fǎ lè sī

Perez (son of Judah)

泰勒
tài lè

Taylor (name)

洛克菲勒
luò kè fēi lè

Rockefeller

乌德勒支
wū dé lè zhī

Utrecht

疏勒
shū lè

Shule ancient name for modern Kashgar

疏勒国
shū lè guó

Shule, oasis state in central Asia (near modern Kashgar) at different historical periods

疏勒县
shū lè xiàn

Shule county in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区[kā shí dì qū], west Xinjiang

皇家加勒比海游轮公司
huáng jiā jiā lè bǐ hǎi yóu lún gōng sī

Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines

石勒
shí lè

Shi Le, founder of Later Zhao of the Sixteen Kingdoms 後趙|后赵[hòu zhào] (319-350)

科迪勒拉
kē dí lè lā

Cordillera, series of mountain ranges stretching from Patagonia in South America through to Alaska and Aleutian Islands

科迪勒拉山系
kē dí lè lā shān xì

Cordillera, series of mountain ranges stretching from Patagonia in South America through to Alaska and Aleutian islands

穆勒鞋
mù lè xié

mule shoes (loanword)

笑口弥勒
xiào kǒu mí lè

laughing Maitreya

第勒尼安海
dì lè ní ān hǎi

Tyrrhenian Sea between Sardinia and the Italian mainland

策勒
cè lè

Chira County in Hotan Prefecture 和田地區|和田地区[hé tián dì qū], Xinjiang

策勒县
cè lè xiàn

Chira County in Hotan Prefecture 和田地區|和田地区[hé tián dì qū], Xinjiang

索福克勒斯
suǒ fú kè lè sī

Sophocles (496-406 BC), Greek tragedian, author of Oedipus the King

罗勒
luó lè

sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum)

圣潘克勒斯站
shèng pān kè lēi sī zhàn

Saint Pancras (London railway station)

圣赫勒拿
shèng hè lēi ná

St Helena

圣赫勒拿岛
shèng hè lè ná dǎo

Saint Helena

兹沃勒
zī wò lè

Zwolle (Netherlands)

萨格勒布
sà gé lè bù

Zagreb, capital of Croatia 克羅地亞|克罗地亚[kè luó dì yà]

解放巴勒斯坦人民阵线
jiě fàng bā lè sī tǎn rén mín zhèn xiàn

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

贝克勒尔
bèi kè lè ěr

becquerel (unit of radioactivity, symbol Bq)

费德勒
fèi dé lè

Roger Federer (1981-), Swiss tennis star

那不勒斯
nà bù lè sī

Napoli, capital of Campania region of Italy

那不勒斯王国
nà bù lè sī wáng guó

Kingdom of Naples (1282-1860)

锡林郭勒
xī lín guō lè

Xilingol League, a prefecture-level subdivision of Inner Mongolia

锡林郭勒盟
xī lín guō lè méng

Xilingol League, a prefecture-level subdivision of Inner Mongolia

开普勒
kāi pǔ lè

Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), German astronomer and formulator of Kepler's laws of planetary motion

阿勒泰
ā lè tài

Altay prefecture-level city in Xinjiang

阿勒泰地区
ā lè tài dì qū

Altay prefecture in Xinjiang

阿勒泰市
ā lè tài shì

Altay prefecture-level city in Xinjiang

霍林郭勒
huò lín guō lè

Huolin Gol, county-level city in Tongliao 通遼|通辽[tōng liáo], Inner Mongolia

霍林郭勒市
huò lín guō lè shì

Huolin Gol, county-level city in Tongliao 通遼|通辽[tōng liáo], Inner Mongolia

额勒贝格·道尔吉
é lè bèi gé · dào ěr jí

Elbegdorj Tsakhia or Tsakhia-giin Elbegdorj (1963-), Mongolian US educated Democratic Party politician, president of Mongolia from 2009

马勒
mǎ lè

Mahler (name)

马可·奥勒留
mǎ kě · ào lēi liú

Marcus Aurelius (121-180), Roman Emperor