to sell

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Connect the thumb and the index finger of one of your hands to form a circle, straight the other three fingers, face the palm sideways; straighten all five fingers of the other hand, face the palm upward; move the first hand inward and the second hand outward.

Example sentence

Everything is gone. Ms. Wu's family started to lose their money and they had to sell their houses. Her family was quite rich in the Baihe District because she was a teacher.
I am very poor but her family was very rich. I come from a poor family but she came from a wealthy family. They had a lot of land but I don't know what happened later on. Her family fell on hard times and they started selling their land one by one until one day they sold them all.

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