穷
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Definitions
- 1. poor
- 2. destitute
- 3. to use up
- 4. to exhaust
- 5. thoroughly
- 6. extremely
- 7. (coll.) persistently and pointlessly
Words Containing 穷
more and more emerge
endless
endless
poor people
poor
impoverished
endless
poor but with great ambitions (idiom)
poor and with low expectations
boundless joy
boundless joy
extraordinary strength
poor
to bewail one's poverty
to have a rich aftertaste
to endure poverty stoically
the country weakened and the people empoverished (idiom)
lit. the assassin's dagger, concealed in a map scroll, is suddenly revealed when the map is unrolled (referring to the attempted assassination of Ying Zheng 嬴政[yíng zhèng] by Jing Ke 荊軻|荆轲[jīng kē] in 227 BC) (idiom)
see 圖窮匕見|图穷匕见[tú qióng bǐ xiàn]
to give sympathy to the rich and relief to the poor (idiom)
Song Renqiong (1909-2005), general of the People's Liberation Army
mountain and river exhausted (idiom); at the end of the line
it will cause no end of trouble (idiom)
if you beat the snake without killing it, endless evils will ensue (idiom)
help the starving but not the poor (idiom)
sunset, the end of the road (idiom); in terminal decline
exhaustible
the people are impoverished, their means exhausted (idiom); to drive the nation to bankruptcy
infinitesimal (in calculus)
infinite sequence
point at infinity (math.)
infinite set (math.)
lit. having presented a flawed argument, one has nothing further to add (idiom)
(Internet slang) (of a man) unmarriageable (lit. short, ugly and poor)
those who did not benefit from the Chinese economic reforms of the 1980s
poor wretch
to engage in wars of aggression at will (idiom)
fiendish
when you hit bottom, you have to come up with a new approach (idiom)
to be short of sth
destitute
poor country
the poor are ignored in the busiest city; the rich will find relatives in the deepest mountain
extravagant in the extreme (idiom)
to indulge in a life of luxury (idiom); extreme extravagance
lit. poor and with few means of subsistance (idiom)
cornered enemy
lit. barren hills and wild rivers (idiom)
the working poor
to think hard (idiom)
destitute
impoverished and dejected; wretched and penniless
to shake uncontrollably
to struggle to cope (with a situation)
poor but spirited person
extremely; utterly
poor but ambitious (idiom); hard-pressed but determined
to use up
to exhaust
Archimedes' method of exhaustion (an early form of integral calculus)
impoverished
hard-up
to pursue relentlessly
to pursue relentlessly
lit. the path exhausted, the end of the road (idiom); an impasse
a remote and desolate place
(of a scholar) impoverished, shabby and pedantic
wretched look
exhausted and hungry
a desperate rat will bite the fox (idiom); the smallest worm will turn being trodden on
to sew and mend clothes for a pittance
to feign and complain bitterly of being poverty stricken (idiom)
destitute; poverty-stricken
to have disastrous consequences
to take refuge with a rich relative
see 追本溯源[zhuī běn sù yuán]
to have disastrous consequences
to exhaust one's limited abilities (idiom)