消 — meaning in English
xiāo
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English meaning
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
- noun A metal fastener with a threaded shaft, used with a nut to hold things together.
- noun A sliding bar used to lock a door.
- noun A flash of lightning.
- verb To run away suddenly, or move very fast.
- verb To fasten something with a bolt, or to lock a door with a bolt.
dissipate — full definition
- verb To gradually scatter or disappear.
- verb To waste or squander resources, money, or energy.