WordTaiwan frequency #18,075
吞嚥
ㄊㄨㄣ ㄧㄢˋ
“swallow (food, drink, or saliva); gulp down”
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- 吞下ㄊㄨㄣ ㄒㄧㄚˋto swallow; to ingest; to endure or accept something unpleasant; to annex or take over.
- 吞噬ㄊㄨㄣ ㄕˋto annex; to devour; in medicine, to engulf and destroy bacteria or foreign matter
- 併吞ㄅㄧㄥˋ ㄊㄨㄣto annex; to swallow up; to seize another's territory, property, or land
- 慢吞吞ㄇㄢˋ ㄊㄨㄣ ㄊㄨㄣslow; sluggish; describing speech or actions that are annoyingly slow
- 吞食ㄊㄨㄣ ㄕˊswallow; eat; devour; annex; seize and occupy
- 吞下去ㄊㄨㄣ ㄒㄧㄚˋ ㄑㄩˋto swallow down; to gulp down; to endure an insult or setback silently; to suppress one's feelings and accept something reluctantly
- 吞沒ㄊㄨㄣ ㄇㄛˋto embezzle or misappropriate funds; to swallow up; to submerge or engulf
- 狼吞虎嚥ㄌㄤˊ ㄊㄨㄣ ㄏㄨˇ ㄧㄢˋto wolf down food; to gorge oneself; to eat ravenously and hastily
- 吞吞吐吐ㄊㄨㄣ ㄊㄨㄣ ㄊㄨˇ ㄊㄨˇto speak hesitantly; to mumble; to hold back what one is saying; to hem and haw