Definition

1. Verb:
   • To banish, to exile, to condemn: To force someone to go to or live in a place, especially as a punishment, often with a sense of degradation or suffering.
   • To degrade, to debase: To lower someone in dignity, status, or moral character; to cause a fall from grace.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Bi đọa vào cái ngục trần gian này. (To be banished to this hell on earth.)
  • Hắn bị đọa xuống địa ngục vì tội lỗi của mình. (He was condemned to hell for his sins.)
  • Sự tham lam có thể đọa con người thành nô lệ. (Greed can degrade a person into a slave.)

Advanced Usage

• "bị đọa" / "bị đày đọa": to be banished/tormented. This emphasizes the passive suffering of the subject.
  • Kẻ phản bội bị đọa đày muôn đời. (The traitor is condemned to eternal torment.)
• "đọa đày": This is a more intense, literary variant meaning to torment, to punish severely, often implying prolonged suffering.
  • Số phận đọa đày anh ta suốt cuộc đời. (Fate tormented him throughout his life.)

Variants and Related Words

• Đày đọa (verb): To torment, to persecute, to make someone suffer greatly. This is a stronger, more common compound.
• Đọa thai (noun, rare/archaic): A term from folklore for a miscarried fetus, implying a condemned or unfortunate spirit.
• Sa đọa (verb/adjective): To degenerate, to become depraved; decadent. Focuses on moral decline.

Synonyms

• Trục xuất (to expel): To force someone to leave a place, but less severe and often without the moral/eternal connotation of .
• Kết án (to sentence, to condemn): To declare someone guilty and assign a punishment, often used in legal contexts.
• Hạ thấp (to lower, to degrade): To reduce in rank or esteem, but usually in a secular, non-punitive context.

Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)

• Đọa lạc: To be lost and condemned; to fall into depravity and be lost. A literary phrase combining (condemn) and (lost).
  • Con người có thể đọa lạc vì ma túy. (A person can be lost and condemned because of drugs.)

Related Idioms

• Đọa đày thân xác: To torment the body; to subject to physical hardship.
  • Công việc nặng nhọc ấy như đọa đày thân xác. (That heavy work is like tormenting the body.)
• Kiếp đọa đày: A life of torment; a condemned existence.
  • Sống trong nghèo khổ, bà ấy coi đó là kiếp đọa đày. (Living in poverty, she considered it a life of torment.)

1. Banish
   • Bi đọa vào cái ngục trần gian này
     To be banished to this hell on earth