變本加厲 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 变本加厉 biànběnjiālì ㄅㄧㄢˋ ㄅㄣˇ ㄐㄧㄚ ㄌㄧˋ lit. change to more severe (idiom) to become more intense (esp. of shortcoming) to aggravate to intensify Character by character 變(biàn)change 本(běn)root 加(jiā)Canada 厲(lì)surname Li A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0