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— meaning in English

xiāo

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English meaning

  • bolt noun A metal fastener with a threaded shaft, used with a nut to hold things together.
  • dissipate verb To gradually scatter or disappear.
  • evaporate verb To turn from a liquid into a vapor or gas.
  • vanish verb To disappear suddenly, or to go out of sight without being noticed.

Senses

消 is used for these senses in English:

  • beat it (idiomatic, chiefly, as imperative, pejorative, colloquial, dismissal) To leave; to go away.
  • bolt (intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate away suddenly.
  • dissipate (physics) To cause energy to be lost through its conversion to heat.
  • evaporate (transitive, figuratively) To give vent to; to dissipate.
  • peter out (intransitive, originally, US) Synonym of peter (“to diminish to nothing, (originally) to refer to a vein of ore”).
  • vanish (mathematics) To become equal to zero.

bolt — full definition

  1. noun A metal fastener with a threaded shaft, used with a nut to hold things together.
  2. noun A sliding bar used to lock a door.
  3. noun A flash of lightning.
  4. verb To run away suddenly, or move very fast.
  5. verb To fasten something with a bolt, or to lock a door with a bolt.

dissipate — full definition

  1. verb To gradually scatter or disappear.
  2. verb To waste or squander resources, money, or energy.

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