糟蹋

糟蹋 zāotà in a sentence

To waste; to spoil; to ruin; to wreck; to insult; to humiliate; to defile (a woman); to rape; also pr.†

Full dictionary entry HSK 6 2 sentences

糟蹋 (zāotà) means To waste; to spoil, to ruin; to wreck, to insult; to humiliate †. Below are 2 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

别 糟蹋 粮食。

Bié zāotà liángshi.

Don't waste food.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 糟蹋

这么好的机会被他 糟蹋 了。

Zhème hǎo de jīhuì bèi tā zāotà le.

He squandered such a good opportunity.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 糟蹋

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How is 糟蹋 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 糟蹋 (zāotà, "To waste; to spoil, to ruin; to wreck, to insult; to humiliate, to defile (a woman); to rape †"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 糟蹋 an HSK word?

Yes — 糟蹋 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.

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The dictionary page for 糟蹋 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

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