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to hold back

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

bie1 • biē

Meaning


Primary

to hold back

Alternatives

hold back, holding back, holds back, holded back, to hold in, hold in, to suppress, suppress, suppressed, suppressing, suppresses

Mnemonic


[bi-] Bigfoot is in [1] front of the [-e] electricity plant where he is trying 憋 to hold back his anxious feelings. To do so he plugs a 敝 shredder into an electric socket to turn it on and rips out his 心 heart and puts it through the shredder. Finally his anxious feelings are 憋 held back, but so too is his life force. He collapses next to the 敝 shredder, dead.

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