1. verb to drag
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CC-CEDICT '掎'; Guoyu '掎' v 1; Mathews 1931 '掎', p. 56; Unihan '掎')
  2. verb to drag one foot
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Mathews 1931 '掎', p. 56; Unihan '掎')
  3. verb to push down; to curb
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 牵制 (Guoyu '掎' v 2; XHZD '掎', p. 315)
  4. verb to grab hold of
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 抓住 (Guoyu '掎' v 3)

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  • 掎角 to attack by separating troops into two wings
  • 掎摭 to pick out faults; to criticize ; to pluck

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