汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 摧枯拉朽
摧枯拉朽
as easy as crushing dry weeds and smashing rotten wood
枯、朽 Dead wood / Destroy the withered vegetation / It's easy to describe / It is also a metaphor to destroy the mighty power of the decadent forces
cuī xiǔ
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

而高科技新媒体则具有摧枯拉朽的强大功能,用“新媒体”的他山之“石”攻自身文化赘疣之“玉”。

The high tech and new media has the formidable function crushing dry weeds and smashing rotten wood. So it is a strategic thinking that we use the new media to attacks the wart of its culture.