Definition

1. Verb:
   • To ill-treat; to mistreat: To cause someone to suffer through cruel, harsh, or inhumane treatment over a period of time.
   • To torment; to make suffer: To force someone to endure great physical pain, mental anguish, or extremely difficult living conditions, often implying a prolonged and unjust situation.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Bạo chúa đày đọa người dân vô tội. (The tyrant ill-treated the innocent people.)
  • Họ cảm thấy bị đày đọa bởi công việc khắc nghiệt và đồng lương rẻ mạt. (They felt tormented by the harsh work and meager wages.)
  • Số phận dường như đang đày đọa anh ấy. (Fate seems to be tormenting him.)

Advanced Usage

• The word "đày đọa" often carries a strong connotation of prolonged suffering and injustice, not just a single act of mistreatment. It is frequently used in literary or serious contexts to describe severe oppression, fate's cruelty, or self-inflicted mental anguish.

Variants and Related Words

• Hành hạ (v): to torture, to torment. This word is often more directly associated with inflicting physical pain.
• Ngược đãi (v): to abuse, to maltreat. This is a common term for abuse, including domestic abuse.
• Áp bức (v): to oppress. Focuses on the unjust use of authority to keep people down.

Synonyms

• Torment: To cause severe suffering.
• Persecute: To subject someone to hostility and ill-treatment.
• Oppress: To keep someone in hardship through unjust force.
• Afflict: To cause pain or suffering.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• Bị đày đọa về thể xác lẫn tinh thần: To be tormented both physically and mentally.
  • Những người tù chính trị bị đày đọa về thể xác lẫn tinh thần. (The political prisoners were tormented both physically and mentally.)
• Sống trong cảnh bị đày đọa: To live in a state of torment.
  • Người dân sống trong cảnh bị đày đọa dưới chế độ đó. (The people lived in a state of torment under that regime.)

verb

1. to ill-treat; to misure