to cut down; to fell; to dispatch an expedition against; to attack; to boast; Taiwan pr. [fa1]

to hew; to cut down

to suppress by armed force; to send a punitive expedition against; to crusade against

the Northern Expedition, the Nationalists' campaign of 1926-1928 under Chiang Kai-shek, against the rule of local warlords

to console the people by punishing the tyrants (abbr. for 弔民伐罪|吊民伐罪[diao4 min2 fa2 zui4])

to go on or send a punitive expedition

to attack; to raid; (of medicine) potent

to denude; illegal logging; forest clearance

to unlawfully fell trees

a ban on logging

to fell; to cut

war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters

to condemn in speech and in writing (idiom); to denounce by word and pen

(idiom) to launch an all-out attack; to roundly condemn; to castigate

wanton destruction of forested lands