đả thương
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Definition
Verb: - To wound, to injure (through physical assault): The primary meaning is to cause physical injury to someone by striking or attacking them. It specifically implies the action results in a wound.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Kẻ tấn công đã đả thương nạn nhân bằng dao. (The attacker wounded the victim with a knife.)
- Trong cuộc ẩu đả, anh ta bị đả thương nặng. (He was seriously wounded in the brawl.)
- Hành động đả thương người khác là phạm pháp. (The act of wounding others is illegal.)
Advanced Usage
- The word đả thương is formal and is most commonly found in legal, journalistic, or literary contexts (e.g., police reports, news articles, historical narratives). In everyday spoken Vietnamese, phrases like (to cause injury) or (to beat until injured) are more frequent.
- It often carries a connotation of intentional violence rather than accidental harm.
Variants and Related Words
- Thương (noun/wound, injury; verb/to hurt, to love): The root "thương" in đả thương means "injury" or "wound."
- Gây thương tích (verb phrase/to cause bodily injury): A more formal legal term.
- Làm bị thương (verb phrase/to injure, to wound): A common, neutral alternative.
Synonyms
- Làm bị thương: to injure, to wound.
- Gây thương tích: to inflict injury (legal/formal).
- Tổn thương (verb/to harm, to injure): Can be used for both physical and emotional harm.
Related Phrases / Idioms
- Đả thương tinh thần: This is a modern, figurative extension meaning "to wound emotionally" or "to cause psychological hurt." It is not a traditional idiom but a compound phrase using the core verb.
- Những lời nói đó đã đả thương tinh thần cô ấy. (Those words wounded her emotionally.)