吞噬

tūn shì

to swallow / to engulf / to gobble up

Example Sentences

森林大火无情地吞噬了数万亩林木,给当地生态造成了不可挽回的破坏。

sēn lín dà huǒ wú qíng dì tūn shì le shù wàn mǔ lín mù, gěi dāng dì shēng tài zào chéng le bù kě wǎn huí de pò huài.

Forest fires have mercilessly devoured tens of thousands of acres of forest and caused irreparable damage to the local ecology.

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