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HSK
to disappear; to fade away
HSK 3
(piece of) news; information / message / CL: 條|条
HSK 3
to consume (goods and services, resources etc)
HSK 3
to cancel / cancellation
HSK 3
to digest (food) / (fig.) to absorb (information etc); to assimilate; to process
HSK 4
firefighting / fire control
HSK 5
to eliminate / to remove
HSK 5
to disinfect; to sterilize
HSK 5
negative / passive / inactive
HSK 5
consumer
HSK 5
to put an end to / to annihilate / to cause to perish / to perish / annihilation (in quantum field theory)
HSK 6
to consume; to use up / to deplete; to expend / (old) news; mail; message
HSK 6
to counteract / to cancel out / to offset
HSK 7-9
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to diminish; to subside / to consume; to reduce / to idle away (the time) / (after or or etc) to need; to require; to take
HSK 7-9
to sink into despondency / (of morale, willpower etc) to diminish; to plummet
HSK 7-9
to while the time away / amusement / pastime / recreation / to make sport of
HSK 7-9
to reduce fever / antipyretic / to decrease inflammation
condition characterized by thirst, hunger, frequent urination and weight loss, identified in TCM with type 2 diabetes
digestive system / gastrointestinal tract
to reduce swelling / detumescence / (fig.) to streamline (a bloated bureaucracy etc)
to wane / to vanish gradually
to waste away / to become thin
to die out / to wither away
to silence
to wear down / to sap / to whittle away / to while away / to idle away
fire hydrant
sound dissipation / noise reduction
to calm down / to stop / to pause / calmly / peaceful / restful
to eliminate / to dispel / resolution
overwhelmed (with joy, sorrow etc) / to feel transported
to cool one's temper
to aid digestion
(literary) to eliminate / to put an end to
to avoid calamities
hearsay / gossip
to spend a summer holiday / to beat the summer heat
to dispel (doubts, misgivings etc) / to give up on
to melt (e.g. an icecap)
to be unable to tolerate or endure / to find sth difficult to manage
to dissipate
to spend the summer / to take a summer vacation
to bear / to enjoy (usually in negative combination, meaning unable to enjoy)
(idiom) to vanish like smoke in thin air; to disappear
in equilibrium / to cancel out (of opposite forces) (physics)
to ebb and rise / to decrease and then grow
to be able to endure (exertion, fatigue etc) / to be able to afford
to dispel (doubts) / to clear up (misunderstanding)
to only need / it only takes
to corrode; to erode; to wear away (lit. and fig.)
variable with the times / transient / impermanent
to eliminate / to obliterate
to melt like ice and break like tiles / to disintegrate / to dissolve
nighttime snack / late-night supper
variant of 撤銷|撤销
variant of 抵消
wear and tear / to wear away over time
to eliminate
to erase / to wipe
(optics) extinction
consumable goods; expendable item
fire hydrant
Reference News (PRC limited-distribution daily newspaper)
fire engine / fire truck
digestive tract
web feed / news feed / syndicated feed
message queue (computing)
variant of 開銷|开销
to divulge secrets
to spend one's leisure time / to idle away the time
to remove ambiguity / disambiguation (in Wikipedia)
disinfectant
fireman
to kill time
(idiom) one declines while the other flourishes; one loses out when the other one gains (as in a trade-off or a zero-sum game)
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
consumer protection (law)
rate of consumption
anti-inflammatory medicine
digestive glands
consumer finance
consumer price index CPI
minimum spend (stipulated by a restaurant, bar, club etc) (abbr. for 最低消費|最低消费)
digestive enzyme
consumer-grade; consumer-level
consumer finance (abbr. for 消費金融|消费金融)
low level of spending; small expenditure
calcium hydroxide Ca(OH)2 / slaked lime
elimination (math) / to eliminate one variable from equations
to be well-informed
hand sanitizer
to disambiguate
to hide / to retreat into privacy
to not need / needless (to say)
to unfollow (on social media etc) (abbr. for 取消關注|取消关注)
well-informed source; person with inside information
to sterilize; to disinfect / to kill; to exterminate (insects, pathogens etc)
antipyretic tablet (to reduce fever), such as sulfanilamide
fire brigade / fire department
anti-alias (computer graphics)
China Consumers' Association (CCA)

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