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支吾

zhīwu

to respond evasively or vaguely
to elude
to stall

用含溷牵强的言语，应付搪塞他人。

重編國語辭典

Homographs

to resist
to deal with

Entry Composition

to support
to sustain
to erect
to raise
branch
division
to draw money
classifier for rods such as pens and guns, for army divisions and for songs or compositions

Containing this entry

(idiom) to talk in a roundabout way to cover up the truth
evasive

to hem and haw
to stall
to stammer
to mumble
to falter

Related entries

(aviation) to stall

to stall
to play for time

to offer excuses (colloquial)
to stall

to hem and haw
to stall
to stammer
to mumble
to falter

pánshānbùqián

to falter
to stall

to hold up
to hinder
to stall

to pull up (stop one's vehicle)
to park
(of a machine) to stop working
to stall

就在这儿停车吧。

Stop the car here.

Source: Tatoeba

(of fire, lamp etc) to go out
to put out (fire)
(fig.) to die down
(of a vehicle) to stall

slow
unhurried
sluggish
gradual
not tense
relaxed
to postpone
to defer
to stall
to stave off
to revive
to recuperate