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Chinese dictionary
- 1
v.be broken; be damaged
瓶子破了。
The bottle was broken.
那个盒子被他打破了。
That box was damaged by him.
喊破嗓子
shout oneself hoarse
- 2
v.break down; damage
破釜沉舟
break the cauldrons and sink the boats
帮我破开西瓜。
Help me cut up the watermelon.
破坏
destroy
synonym
- 3
v.get rid of; destroy; break with; break through
突破
break through
要敢于打破常规。
We should have the courage to break with convention.
学校破格录取了他。
The school makes an exception to let him to enroll.
- 4
v.defeat; capture (a city, etc.)
城破之日
the day the city fell
大破敌人
crush the enemy
- 5
v.break; split; cleave
势如破竹
like splitting a bamboo
- 6
v.spend
破钞
spend money
破费
go to some expense
- 7
v.expose the truth of; lay bare
看破
see through
破案
solve a case
- 8
v.change (money)
一百元大票，破不开。
A hundred yuan ticket can't be broken.
- 9
adj.poor; bad; paltry; lousy; shabby
谁看那破戏！
Who's watching that shit!
antonym
Words and phrases with 破
- 破发[word]win a service break; fall below the issue price
- 破格[word]break the restriction of prescribed rules
- 破除[word]break with
- 破产程序[word]bankruptcy proceedings
- 破产法[word]law of bankruptcy
- 破水[word]water breaks
- 破产[word]bankruptcy; go bankrupt
- 破灭[word]fall through
- 破衣[word]duds
- 破除迷信[idiom]abolish away with rid of all fetishes and superstitions
- 破绽百出[idiom]full of contradictions
- 破门而入[idiom]break into houses
- 破釜沉舟[idiom]break the cauldrons and sink the boats —cut off all means of retreat to show one's determination to press ahead
- 破烂不堪[idiom]torn and tattered
- 破涕为笑[idiom]smile one's tears away
- 破镜重圆[idiom]retie a loose marriage knot
- 破罐破摔[idiom]smash a pot to pieces just because it's cracked—write oneself off as hopeless and act recklessly
- 破口大骂[idiom]burst into a storm of abuse