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

HSK 7-9

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.

HSK 7-9

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; for everyday 'get rid of' use 去掉.

Stroke Order

消 xiāo

泯 mǐn