消泯

xiāomǐn

verb

Meanings

1 to eliminate
2 to obliterate
3 to wipe away (differences, hostility, traces)

Characters

to disappear; to dissolve

to vanish; to be wiped out

Examples

时间消泯了他们之间的隔阂。

Shíjiān xiāomǐn le tāmen zhījiān de géhé.

Time has dissolved the estrangement between them.

战争的伤痕难以完全消泯。

Zhànzhēng de shānghén nányǐ wánquán xiāomǐn.

The scars of war are hard to wipe away completely.

Tips

register

Literary verb. The objects are usually abstract — 隔阂 (estrangement), 偏见 (prejudice), 痕迹 (traces), 差异 (differences). For physical elimination use 消除 (xiāochú); for everyday 'get rid of' use 去掉 (qùdiào).

Stroke Order

消 xiāo

泯 mǐn