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塞
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Definitions
- 1. strategic pass
- 2. tactical border position
Example Sentences
1 shown哇 塞 !
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 塞
to block
Albacete, Spain
Brussels, capital of Belgium
constricted (feeling); pent-up; repressed
in order to minimally fulfill one's responsibilities
Mercedes Benz
Herzegovina
Massachusetts, US state
to shut one's eyes and stop one's ears
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Othello, 1604 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
Basel, Switzerland
Cervantes
fig. to act blindly
Xisaishan district of Huangshi city 黃石市|黄石市[huáng shí shì], Hubei
Somerset county in southwest England
spark plug
to stop up
Ansai county in Yan'an 延安[yán ān], Shaanxi
congestion
to be clogged up
Montserrat
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), famous Roman politician, orator and philosopher, murdered at the orders of Marc Anthony
Paracelsius (Auroleus Phillipus Theostratus Bombastus von Hohenheim, 1493-1541), Swiss alchemist and prominent early European scientist
feeler gauge
piston
Azerbaijan
thrombosis
the Seychelles
wall plug
Lake Issyk Kul in Kyrgyzstan
corkscrew
(linguistics) plosive; stop
to close doors and block openings (idiom); mounting a strict defense
frontier fortress
Cessna (US aviation company)
(slang) wow!
Cyprus
xi or ksi (Greek letter Ξξ)
(coll.) to be out of luck
a blocked nose
to fill up
affricate (phonetics)
cork
(linguistics) voiced stop
Aksai Kazakh autonomous county in Jiuquan 酒泉, Gansu
(Jean-Michel) Severino, CEO of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD)
border fort, esp. defending narrow valley
Eugene Cernan (1934-), US astronaut in Apollo 10 and Apollo 17 missions, \last man on the moon\",2025-02-14 13:18:21,2025-02-14 13:18:21 75712,52304,to give a backward kick (e.g. of a horse),2025-02-14 13:18:21,2025-02-14 13:18:21 75713,52305,(of mules
Louis Pierre Althusser (1918-1990), Marxist philosopher
Segovia, Spain
Salem, capital of Oregon
butt plug
to clog
it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good
Ossetia (a Caucasian republic)
traffic congestion fee
Ansai county in Yan'an 延安[yán ān], Shaanxi
Lucerne, Switzerland
(coll.) to feel sick at heart
Samuel (name)
ravenous wolves block the road (idiom); wicked people in power
cork
Maseru, capital of Lesotho
to skimp on the job; to work half-heartedly; not to take the job seriously
Serb nationality
murky darkness suddenly opens (idiom); a sudden flash of insight and all is clear
Barcelona
to repress
Massachusetts, US state
choked with silt
Serb language
traffic jam
fig. a blessing in disguise
Ethiopic (language)
Aksai Kazakh autonomous county in Jiuquan 酒泉, Gansu
honest and far-seeing
road congestion
blood obstruction
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Azerbaijan (person)
to be at a loss for words
Sangiovese (grape type)
Poseidon, God of the sea in Greek mythology
to stuff oneself with food
airlock
earplug
it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good
ice blockage
the Seychelles
fort
earplug
to clog up
Ethiopian Zone, aka Afrotropical realm
Xisaishan district of Huangshi city 黃石市|黄石市[huáng shí shì], Hubei
Rosetta Stone
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) or Dr Johnson, English writer and lexicographer
Düsseldorf (Germany)
Eratosthenes of Cyrene (c. 276-c. 195 BC), ancient Greek mathematician and inventor
Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995), predecessor of Bosnia and Herzegovina 波斯尼亞和黑塞哥維那|波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那[bō sī ní yà hé hēi sài gē wéi nà]
Eugene Cernan (1934-), US astronaut in Apollo 10 and Apollo 17 missions, \last man on the moon\",2025-02-14 13:18:21,2025-02-14 13:18:21 64552,44441,Celtic,2025-02-14 13:18:21,2025-02-14 13:18:21 64553,56965,(idiom) to become alarmed for no good reason,2025-02-14 13:18:21,2025-02-14 13:18:21 64554,44442,Celtic language,2025-02-14 13:18:21,2025-02-14 13:18:21 64555,44443,Serbia,2025-02-14 13:18:21,2025-02-14 13:18:21 64556,44444,Serbo-Croatian (language),2025-02-14 13:18:21,2025-02-14 13:18:21 64557,44445,Serbia and Montenegro (after break-up of Yugoslavia in 1992),2025-02-14 13:18:21,2025-02-14 13:18:21 64558,44446,Serbian (language),2025-02-14 13:18:21,2025-02-14 13:18:21 64559,44447,Zelda (in Legend of Zelda video game),2025-02-14 13:18:21,2025-02-14 13:18:21 64560,44448,to get food stuck between one's teeth,2025-02-14 13:18:21,2025-02-14 13:18:21 64561,44449,Sevastopol,2025-02-14 13:18:21,2025-02-14 13:18:21 64562,44450,Seine,2025-02-14 13:18:21,2025-02-14 13:18:21 64563,44451,to slip sb sth,2025-02-14 13:18:21,2025-02-14 13:18:21 64564,44451,to press sb to accept sth,2025-02-14 13:18:21,2025-02-14 13:18:21 64565,44451,to insert surreptitiously,2025-02-14 13:18:21,2025-02-14 13:18:21 64566,44451,to foist sth off on sb,2025-02-14 13:18:21,2025-02-14 13:18:21 64567,44452,Sevilla
Sebastian (name)
traffic jam
dammed lake
cerebral infarction
Sierra Leone
dexamethasone
to stuff full
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), Spanish novelist, poet and playwright, author of Don Quixote 堂吉訶德|堂吉诃德[táng jí hē dé]
Sennheiser (brand)
Spencer or Spence (name)
to carry out one's duties perfunctorily; to fulfill one's responsibility
Düsseldorf (Germany)
stuffing
Ethiopia
to obstruct
Senegal
to muddle through
myocardial infarction; heart attack
pulmonary embolism (medicine)
piston
to stop
Rüsselsheim, city in Germany
bottle cork
glottal stop
Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), German philosopher
South Ossetia
Knossos (Minoan palace at Iraklion, Crete)