磨
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Definitions
- 1. to rub
- 2. to grind
- 3. to polish
- 4. to sharpen
- 5. to wear down
- 6. to die out
- 7. to waste time
- 8. to pester
- 9. to insist
Words Containing 磨
to polish; to burnish; to shine
to torment
to carve and polish (jade)
to ponder
to break in
to suffer wear and tear; to deteriorate through use; to wear out
a torment
indelible
a blade will get rusty if it is not sharpened; a man will fall behind if he doesn't study (idiom)
lit. cutting and polishing (idiom)
premolar tooth
lit. to kill the donkey when the grinding is done (idiom)
UN convention against torture and cruel treatment (ratified by PRC in 1988)
If you work at it hard enough, you can grind an iron bar into a needle.
the road to happiness is strewn with setbacks (idiom)
(proverb) A lazy person will find many excuses to delay working
dawdling
to torment
lit. with money, you can get a devil to turn a millstone (idiom)
rod mill
Shuimogou district (Uighur: Shuymogu Rayoni) of Urumqi city 烏魯木齊市|乌鲁木齐市[wū lǔ mù qí shì], Xinjiang
Shuimogou district (Uighur: Shuymogu Rayoni) of Urumqi city 烏魯木齊市|乌鲁木齐市[wū lǔ mù qí shì], Xinjiang
terrazzo
to wear down
to kill time
freshly ground
see 球磨機|球磨机[qiú mó jī]
ball mill
grindstone
milling
abrasive (material)
abrasive
abrasive disk
to mill
to feel embarrassed
annoying
to polish
to hone (a knife)
lit. sharpening the axe won't make the wood-splitting take longer (idiom)
whetstone (for honing knives)
lit. to sharpen one's sword (idiom)
to grumble
to be very slow
(dialect) to dawdle
to argue pointlessly
to wear out the skin of one's teeth (idiom); pointlessly blather
mill
miller
mill
grinder's disease
grinding machine
unembarrassed
to sharpen
to torture
attrition rate
abrasive material
to grind an iron bar down to a fine needle (idiom); fig. to persevere in a difficult task
milling machine
to idle on the job
to obliterate
see 磨練|磨练[mó liàn]
to pester
to grind one's teeth (during sleep)
lower millstone
whetstone
millstone grit
millstone grit
to scrub with an abrasive
sander; sanding machine
facial scrub
incessant complaining
to talk until one is blue in the face
to wear out one's lips (idiom)
to grind up
to dillydally
to sharpen on grindstone
to grind one's way through an ink stone
to temper oneself
wear and tear
pumice stone
erosion
a polished stone (neolithic) implement
to grumble
friction blister
to rub lightly
molar tooth
whetstone (for honing knives)
karma (loanword)
wear resistant
lit. to play together ear to ear and temple to temple (idiom)
angle grinder
to coax and pester (idiom)
rotary grindstone
sluggish
torture and cruel treatment
electric mill (for grinding wheat etc)