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拔
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Definitions
- 1. to pull up
- 2. to pull out
- 3. to draw out by suction
- 4. to select
- 5. to pick
- 6. to stand out (above level)
- 7. to surpass
- 8. to seize
Example Sentences
1 shown你 拔 了插頭了嗎？
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Words Containing 拔
fire cupping (acupressure technique of Chinese medicine, with fired vacuum cup applied to the skin)
tall and straight
shoehorn
handsome (of people)
firm and indomitable (idiom); tenacious and unyielding
to pull out
lit. to blow out the lamp and put out the candle (idiom)
elongation stage
chilled
to set out (of troops)
(TCM) to cup; to give a cupping treatment
to free oneself
lit. pull up a plant and the roots follow
lit. pull up a plant and the roots follow (idiom); fig. also involving others
lit. to intervene when one sees an injustice (idiom)
cupping glass
(lit. and fig.) to uproot
shoe horn
lit. pull up a plant and the roots follow (idiom); fig. also involving others
to provoke
to promote to a higher job
tug-of-war
discharge
height above sea level
to pick out
lit. when you pull a radish out of the ground, some dirt comes up with it (idiom)
see 別人牽驢你拔橛子|别人牵驴你拔橛子[bié ren qiān lu:2 nǐ bá jué zi]
elevation (above sea level)
Abbasid Empire (750-1258), successor of the Umayyad caliphate
Hannibal (name)
to rise steeply from level ground
to distinguish oneself; to be of outstanding talent
see 路見不平，拔刀相助|路见不平，拔刀相助[lù jiàn bù píng , bá dāo xiāng zhù]
to pull out hair
outstanding
lit. choose a general from among the dwarfs
tall and straight
hot swapping
topping (mining)
to select
claw hammer
to pull up seedlings (for transplanting)
to strike camp
outstandingly talented
to extract a tooth
daddy
to select the best
to pluck
fortitude
draw out pus by applying a plaster to the affected area
branch of the Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑 nomadic people, founders of Wei 北魏 of the Northern Dynasties (386-534)
plunger for unblocking toilet
lit. a hair plucked from (person A) would be thicker than (person B)'s waist (idiom)
Amédée Courbet (1826-1885), a French admiral who won a series of important land and naval victories during the Tonkin campaign and the Sino-French War
lit. to grab feathers from a flying goose
wire drawing
lit. to choose a general among the dwarves (idiom)
stingy (idiom)
lit. with swords drawn and bows bent (idiom); fig. a state of mutual hostility
elephant trunk clam
jointing (agriculture)
Bathsheba, wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of David (according to the Hebrew Bible)
to weigh anchor
to excel the common (idiom); surpassing
to break into a run
top-notch (colloquial)
to raise (one's voice)
to pull up by the roots
lit. someone else stole the donkey; you only pulled up the stake it was tethered to (idiom)
outstanding
select the best people for promotion
to spoil things through excessive enthusiasm (idiom)