越演越烈 Save Sign in to save words yuèyǎnyuèliè ㄩㄝˋ ㄧㄢˇ ㄩㄝˋ ㄌㄧㄝˋ to be intensifying to be getting worse and worse to start to run rampant Character by character 越(yuè)generic word for peoples or states of south China or south Asia at different historical periods 演(yǎn)perform 越(yuè)generic word for peoples or states of south China or south Asia at different historical periods 烈(liè)ardent A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0