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抹杀

mǒ shā

HSK 6 2-character word Traditional 抹殺

What 抹杀 means

1. to erase
2. to cover traces
3. to obliterate evidence
4. to expunge
5. to blot out
6. to suppress

The characters in 抹杀

• 抹mǒto smear; to wipe; to erase
• 杀shāto kill; to slay; to murder; to attack; to weaken; to reduce; (dialect) to smart

Words containing 抹杀

• 一笔抹杀yī bǐ mǒ shāto blot out at one stroke; to reject out of hand; to deny without a hearing

Sounds the same

Read mǒ shā, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 抹煞variant of 抹杀