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勒
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Definitions
- 1. to rein in
- 2. to compel
- 3. to force
- 4. to carve
- 5. to engrave
- 6. (literary) to command
- 7. to lead
- 8. bridle
Example Sentences
1 shown你啷个楞个 勒 个呀
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 勒
Napoli, capital of Campania region of Italy
to draw the outline of
Elbegdorj Tsakhia or Tsakhia-giin Elbegdorj (1963-), Mongolian US educated Democratic Party politician, president of Mongolia from 2009
Kaliningrad Oblast
Oregon
Stalingrad, former name of Volvograd 伏爾加格勒|伏尔加格勒 (1925-1961)
Lillehammer (city in Norway)
Mahler (name)
Zagreb, capital of Croatia 克羅地亞|克罗地亚[kè luó dì yà]
Chrysler
Oregon
Le Havre (French town)
Qizilsu or Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang
Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines
to tighten
Drøbak (city in Akershus, Norway)
(slang) shoot!
Friedrich Schiller or Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), German poet and dramatist
Sophocles (496-406 BC), Greek tragedian, author of Oedipus the King
Shule ancient name for modern Kashgar
to guide a horse with the reins
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
mule shoes (loanword)
Ptolemy, kings of Egypt after the partition of Alexander the Great's Empire in 305 BC
Caterpillar Inc.
wagon (yoked to beast of burden)
Pretoria, capital of South Africa
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]
Qizilsu or Kizilsu Kyrgyz autonomous prefecture in Xinjiang
Palestinian National Authority
Leningrad, name of Russian city Saint Petersburg 聖彼得堡|圣彼得堡 1923-1991
Mandalay, province and second city of Myanmar (Burma)
extortion and blackmail (idiom)
Gilles (name)
Empedocles (490-430 BC), Greek Sicilian pre-Socratic philosopher
Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928-), French Front National extreme right-wing politician
to coerce
to throttle
Schiller (name)
Cordillera, series of mountain ranges stretching from Patagonia in South America through to Alaska and Aleutian islands
(onom.) laughing sound
Kaliningrad, town on Baltic now in Russian republic
Lesbos (Greek island in Aegean)
Altay prefecture in Xinjiang
to kidnap for ransom
lit. to rein in the horse at the edge of the precipice (idiom)
to strangle
Kyzyl, capital of Tuva 圖瓦|图瓦[tú wǎ]
Zwolle (Netherlands)
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
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
Salem, capital of Oregon
laughing Maitreya
Lesbos (Greek island in Aegean)
Saint Helena
Bielefeld (city in Germany)
Lviv (Lvov), town in western Ukraine
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
Mile county in Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous prefecture, Yunnan
Caribbean
Whistler (name)
Scarborough Shoal (Philippines' name for Huangyan Island)
Altay prefecture-level city in Xinjiang
Cordillera, series of mountain ranges stretching from Patagonia in South America through to Alaska and Aleutian Islands
to blackmail
Taylor (name)
Bucharest, capital of Romania
ransomware (computing)
Keller or Köhler (name)
Rockefeller
Volgograd, Russian city on the Volga River 伏爾加河|伏尔加河[fú ěr jiā hé]
Maitreya
Maitreya Bodhisattva
Örebro (city in Sweden)
blackmail
Grenoble (French town)
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
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), German astronomer and formulator of Kepler's laws of planetary motion
Chira County in Hotan Prefecture 和田地區|和田地区[hé tián dì qū], Xinjiang
Palestine
Huolin Gol, county-level city in Tongliao 通遼|通辽[tōng liáo], Inner Mongolia
to force sb to give up (a drug)
Shule county in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区[kā shí dì qū], west Xinjiang
see 餘甘子|余甘子[yú gān zǐ]
sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum)
Shule, oasis state in central Asia (near modern Kashgar) at different historical periods
Mile county in Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous prefecture, Yunnan
thaler or taler (currency of various Germanic countries in 15th-19th centuries) (loanword)
Perez (son of Judah)
becquerel (unit of radioactivity, symbol Bq)
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
Huolin Gol, county-level city in Tongliao 通遼|通辽[tōng liáo], Inner Mongolia
the Doppler effect
Jules Verne (1828-1905), French novelist specializing in science fiction and adventure stories
Kingdom of Naples (1282-1860)
Chira County in Hotan Prefecture 和田地區|和田地区[hé tián dì qū], Xinjiang
Øresund
Qizilsu or Kizilsu River in Xinjiang
lux (unit of illuminance) (loanword)
Levinas (philosopher)
Utrecht
Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), French philosopher
St Helena
Tyrrhenian Sea between Sardinia and the Italian mainland
Flores, Indonesia
Altay prefecture-level city in Xinjiang
Nazareth (in Biblical Palestine)
Ptolemy, kings of Egypt after the partition of Alexander the Great's Empire in 305 BC
to order
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
Chrysler
Xilingol League, a prefecture-level subdivision of Inner Mongolia
to strangle
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
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Christian Johann Doppler, Austrian physicist who discovered the Doppler effect
Shi Le, founder of Later Zhao of the Sixteen Kingdoms 後趙|后赵[hòu zhào] (319-350)
Association of Caribbean States
Roger Federer (1981-), Swiss tennis star
Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943)
to tighten one's belt
Palermo, Italy
to strangle or throttle to death
Perez (name)
Caribbean Sea
Urbain Le Verrier (1811-1877), French mathematician and astronomer who predicted the position of Neptune
Marcus Aurelius (121-180), Roman Emperor
Xilingol League, a prefecture-level subdivision of Inner Mongolia
Saint Pancras (London railway station)