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吞噬

tūn shì

2-character word

What 吞噬 means

1. to swallow
2. to engulf
3. to gobble up

The characters in 吞噬

• 吞tūnto swallow; to take
• 噬shìto devour; to bite

Example sentences

• 房子被火吞噬了。
  Fángzi bèi huǒ tūnshì le.
  The house was in flames.
• 她是一个非常娇小的女孩，但她真的自己抱着中音萨克斯。不过，我忍不住想像这个东西缠绕包裹住她，并像蟒蛇般的吞噬她。
  Tā shì yī gè fēicháng jiāoxiǎo de nǚhái, dàn tā zhēn de zìjǐ bào zhe zhōng yīn sàkèsī. bùguò, wǒ rěnbuzhù xiǎngxiàng zhège dōngxi chánrào bāoguǒ zhù tā, bìng xiàng mǎngshé bān de tūnshì tā.
  She was a tiny girl, but she really held her own on the baritone sax. Nonetheless, I couldn't help but imagine the thing wrapping itself around her and devouring her like a boa constrictor.

Words starting with 吞噬

• 吞噬作用tūn shì zuò yòng(biology) phagocytosis
• 吞噬细胞tūn shì xì bāophagocyte (cell that ingests and destroys foreign matter)

Words containing 吞噬

• 大吞噬细胞dà tūn shì xì bāomacrophage
• 小吞噬细胞xiǎo tūn shì xì bāomicrophage (a type of white blood cell)