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- to fasten
- to button
- button
- buckle
- knot
- to arrest
- to confiscate
- to deduct (money)
- discount
- to knock
- to smash, spike or dunk (a ball)
- to cover (with a bowl etc)
- (fig.) to tag a label on sb
- (Tw) (loanword) code
- to deduct marks (when grading school work)
- to have marks deducted
- penalty points
- to lose points for a penalty or error
Trad. 扣發
- to deprive
- to withhold
- to hold sth back (and prevent it being known)
- brokerage
- a commission paid to a middleman
- euphemism for a bribe
- a kickback
- a buckle or fastener for clothing that does not use a button and buttonhole (e.g. the buckle on metal wristwatches)
Trad. 環環相扣
- closely linked with one another
- interlocked
- to interrelate
- to excite
- to thrill
- exciting
- thrilling
- cliff-hanging
- to make a scapegoat of sb
- to defame
- to slander
- (northern dialect) lit. to cap in excrement
- fig. to discredit with absurd unfounded accusations
- to vilify
- lit. various cuts and deductions (idiom)
- fig. greatly reduced
- substantially scaled back