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断绝

duàn jué

HSK 6 2-character word Traditional 斷絕

What 断绝 means

1. to sever; to break off

The characters in 断绝

• 断duànto break; to snap; to cut off
• 绝juéto cut short; extinct; to disappear

Example sentences

• 他跟他们干脆地断绝来往了。
  He made a clean break with them.
• 汤姆晚上在酒吧里和他的哥们儿们高兴了一通以后回家发现前门上贴着一张字条，上有他妻子的笔迹，写着：「绝对别觉得我可能会再回来，我跟你从此断绝了！」
  Returning home from an evening down the pub with his mates, Tom found a handwritten note stuck to the front door; the handwriting was his wife's. It read: "You can forget any idea that I might come back – I've left you!"