化[huà]

动

1. change; turn; transform

♦ ~害为利 turn harm into good; turn a disadvantage into an advantage

♦ ~公为私 appropriate public property

2. convert; influence

♦ 感化

3. melt; dissolve

♦ 雪~了。 The snow has melted.

♦ 他把药片用水~开。 He dissolved the pills in water.

4. digest

5. burn up

♦ 焚化

6.宗die

♦ 坐化

7. (of Buddhist monks or Taoist priests) beg alms

♦ 化斋

名略 见〖化学〗
(动词后缀)-ize; -ify

♦ 绿化