đánh thức
Definition
- Verb:
- To wake (someone) up: The primary meaning of "đánh thức" is to cause another person or creature to stop sleeping. It is a transitive verb, requiring an object—the person or thing being awakened.
- To rouse; to stir (something abstract): In a figurative sense, "đánh thức" can mean to evoke or stimulate a feeling, memory, or quality that was dormant.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Mẹ đánh thức tôi dậy lúc 6 giờ sáng. (My mother woke me up at 6 a.m.)
- Tiếng ồn lớn đánh thức cả khu phố. (The loud noise woke up the whole neighborhood.)
- Bài hát cũ đánh thức nhiều kỷ niệm. (The old song stirred up many memories.)
Advanced Usage
- "đánh thức tiềm năng": to awaken potential.
- Người thầy tốt biết cách đánh thức tiềm năng của học sinh. (A good teacher knows how to awaken a student's potential.)
Variants and Related Words
Thức dậy (v): to wake up (oneself). This is an intransitive verb.
- Tôi thức dậy lúc 7 giờ. (I woke up at 7 o'clock.)
Đánh thức dậy (v): a slightly more emphatic form of "đánh thức," also meaning to wake someone up.
Synonyms
- Awaken: to rouse from sleep or a state of inactivity.
- Rouse: to bring out of a state of sleep, unconsciousness, or inactivity.
- Wake up: (transitive) to cause someone to stop sleeping.
Related Idioms
- Đánh thức lương tâm: to awaken one's conscience.
- Sự kiện đó đã đánh thức lương tâm của cộng đồng. (That event awakened the community's conscience.)
verb
-
to awake; to wake up
