Definition

1. Noun:

   • Chest, Breast: The front part of the body between the neck and the abdomen; specifically, the upper chest or sternum area in humans and animals.
   • One Hundred Thousand: An archaic term for the number 100,000.

2. Verb:

   • To feel choked with indignation; to be resentful: To feel intense anger, frustration, or a sense of injustice that one is forced to suppress, creating a feeling of being stifled or suffocated emotionally.
   • To oppress; to bully: To treat someone in a cruel or unfair way, using power to keep them under control.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Chest):
  • Anh ta bị đau ở ức. (He has pain in his chest.)
  • Con chim bị thương ở ức. (The bird is wounded in the breast.)
• Verb (To feel resentful):
  • Cô ấy ức lắm nhưng không dám nói. (She is very resentful but doesn't dare to speak up.)
  • Bị hiểu lầm mà không giải thích được, anh ta ức đến nghẹn lời. (Being misunderstood and unable to explain, he was choked with indignation.)

Advanced Usage

• The verb form often describes a state of internalized, unvented anger, more intense than simple annoyance ("tức giận").
• "ức chế": to suppress, to inhibit (often used in psychology or biology).
  • Cảm xúc bị ức chế lâu ngày có thể gây bệnh. (Long-suppressed emotions can cause illness.)

Variants and Related Words

• Uất ức (adj/verb): To feel deeply wronged and bitter; a stronger, more profound sense of resentment than "ức".
  • Anh ta chịu nỗi oan uất ức. (He bore a deeply bitter injustice.)
• Oan ức (noun): A wrongful grievance; an injustice one is forced to endure.
  • Làm sáng tỏ nỗi oan ức. (To clarify a wrongful grievance.)

Synonyms

• Noun: Chest, breast, sternum.
• Verb (resentful): To resent, to feel indignant, to be bitter.
• Verb (oppress): To oppress, to bully, to tyrannize.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• Ức một cổ: Literally "a throatful of resentment," meaning to be bursting with anger one cannot express.
  • Nghe xong, anh ấy ức một cổ mà không nói được câu nào. (After hearing it, he was bursting with anger but couldn't say a word.)
• Ức hiếp: To bully, to intimidate (combining the meaning of oppression and threat).
  • Kẻ lớn không được ức hiếp trẻ nhỏ. (The big should not bully the small.)

noun

1. chest

verb

1. to choke with anger