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Trad. 塗抹
- to paint
- to smear
- to apply (makeup etc)
- to doodle
- to erase
- to obliterate
Trad. 抹殺
- to erase
- to cover traces
- to obliterate evidence
- to expunge
- to blot out
- to suppress
- to plaster
- to render (a wall)
- (fig.) to bring shame on
- also pr. [mo4 hui1]
- to discredit
- to defame
- to smear sb's name
- to bring shame upon (oneself or one's family etc)
- to blacken (e.g. commando's face for camouflage)
- to black out or obliterate (e.g. censored words)
Trad. 轉彎抹角
- see 拐彎抹角|拐弯抹角[guai3 wan1 mo4 jiao3]
Trad. 一筆抹殺
- to blot out at one stroke
- to reject out of hand
- to deny without a hearing
Trad. 拐彎抹角
- lit. going round the curves and skirting the corners (idiom)
- fig. to speak in a roundabout way
- to equivocate
- to beat about the bush
Trad. 一筆抹煞
- variant of 一筆抹殺|一笔抹杀[yi1 bi3 mo3 sha1]
Trad. 塗脂抹粉
- (idiom) to put on makeup
- (idiom) to prettify
Trad. 濃妝艷抹
- to apply makeup conspicuously (idiom)
- dressed to the nines and wearing makeup
Trad. 淡妝濃抹
- in light or heavy makeup (idiom)
Trad. 抹不下臉
- to be unable to keep a straight face (idiom)
Trad. 哭天抹淚
- to wail and whine
- piteous weeping
Trad. 吃乾抹淨
- (idiom) to devour (food)
- (idiom) to shamelessly take advantage; to ruthlessly exploit
Trad. 往臉上抹黑
- to bring shame to
- to smear
- to disgrace
- lit. to rub one's nose with dust
- to suffer a snub
- to meet with a rebuff
Trad. 子宮頸抹片
- cervical smear (Tw)