dầm dề

Thân thiện

Quần áo của cậu bé dầm dề nước sau khi chơi dưới mưa.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Soaked; drenched; oozingly wet: Describes something thoroughly and completely wet, often with liquid visibly present or dripping.
   • Protracted; long-drawn-out: Used to describe an event, especially rain, that continues for a very long and tedious duration.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Sau trận mưa, con đường đất trở nên dầm dề. (After the rain, the dirt road became soaked and muddy.)
  • Cô ấy khóc, nước mắt dầm dề. (She cried, her eyes overflowing with tears.)
  • Trời mưa dầm dề suốt ba ngày. (It rained incessantly for three days.)

Advanced Usage

• The word often carries a connotation of an excessive, unpleasant, or burdensome amount of wetness or duration.
• It can be used figuratively to describe an overwhelming abundance of something non-liquid, such as sorrow or sentiment, though this is less common.

Variants and Related Words

• Dầm (v): To soak; to steep. This is the root verb.
  • Phải dầm quần áo trong nước lạnh. (One must soak the clothes in cold water.)

Synonyms

• Soaked: Thoroughly wet.
• Drenched: Wet through and through.
• Incessant: Continuing without interruption (for the prolonged sense).
• Waterlogged: Saturated with water.

Related Idioms

• While "dầm dề" itself is not typically part of a fixed idiom, it is the standard descriptive term for persistent rain.
  • Mưa dầm dề: Protracted, incessant rain. This is a common collocation.

Học thuật

adj

1. soaked; oozingly wet
   • nước mắt dầm dề
     Eyes overflowing with tears