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暴敛

bào liǎn

2-character word Traditional 暴斂

What 暴敛 means

1. to overtax
2. to extort

The characters in 暴敛

• 暴bàosudden; violent; cruel
• 敛liǎn(literary) to hold back; (literary) to restrain; to control (oneself); to collect…

Words containing 暴敛

• 横征暴敛héng zhēng bào liǎnto tax by force and extort levies (idiom); to screw taxes out of the people by force

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