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Chinese dictionary
- 1
v.dig; excavate; scoop; unearth
战壕挖好了。
The trench has been dug.
那时候我们常常出去挖野菜。
In those days, we often went to dig for wild vegetables.
士兵们正在挖河床上的淤泥。
The soldiers are dredging the mud from the riverbed.
- 2
v.dialscratch with one's fingernail
挖伤
scratch with one's fingernail
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Words and phrases with 挖
- 挖补[word]mend by replacing a damaged part
- 挖墙脚[word]sap the wall
- 挖坑[word]scoop out/dig a hole in ground; set traps
- 挖割[word]parting
- 挖土机[word]backhoe
- 挖补机[word]patching machine
- 挖耳[word]pick one's/somebody's ears; earpick
- 挖沟铲斗[word]ditch-digging bucket
- 挖方[word]excavate; cubage of excavation
- 挖耳当招[idiom]mistake other's ear-picking as hailing oneself
- 挖肉补疮[idiom]adopt certain measures in response to an emergency at the expense of one's long term interests
- 挖空心思[idiom]rack one's brains