冻死

凍死

dòngsǐ

verb #7,966

Meanings

1 to freeze to death
2 to be freezing cold (colloquial exaggeration)

Characters

to freeze; frozen

to die; dead; extremely

Examples

那个冬天，很多人被冻死了。

Nàge dōngtiān, hěnduō rén bèi dòngsǐ le.

That winter, many people froze to death.

外面太冷了，我快冻死了！

Wàimiàn tài lěng le, wǒ kuài dòngsǐ le!

It's so cold outside, I'm freezing to death!

把暖气打开吧，我都要冻死了。

Bǎ nuǎnqì dǎkāi ba, wǒ dōu yào dòngsǐ le.

Turn on the heater; I'm about to freeze to death.

Tips

grammar

The verb + 死 pattern is common in Chinese: it can mean literally dying from something (冻死 = freeze to death) or be used as hyperbole (我快冻死了 = I'm freezing!). Other examples: 饿死 (starve), 累死 (exhausted), 热死 (boiling hot).

Stroke Order

冻 dòng

死 sǐ