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打消

dǎ xiāo

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

打消 (dǎ xiāo) means "to dispel (doubts, misgivings etc); to give up on". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 打消 means

1. to dispel (doubts, misgivings etc)
2. to give up on

The characters in 打消

• 打dǎa semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects…
• 消xiāoto diminish; to subside; to consume; to reduce; to idle away (the time)

Example sentences

• 打消这种幼稚的念头吧。
  Dǎxiāo zhèzhǒng yòuzhì de niàntou ba.
  Get rid of those kinds of naive ideas.
• 直到党委书记出面加以解释，才算打消了这种想法。
  Zhídào dǎngwěi shūji chūmiàn jiāyǐ jiěshì, cái suàn dǎxiāo le zhèzhǒng xiǎngfǎ.
  Only when the Party Committee Secretary came in person to resolve it was this point of view dispelled entirely.

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