Definition

1. Verb:
   • To come true / to prove true: Refers to a prediction, prophecy, omen, or forecast becoming a reality or being verified by subsequent events.
   • To be validated / to be borne out: Describes a theory, hypothesis, or feeling being confirmed or substantiated by evidence or experience.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Lời tiên tri đó đã ứng nghiệm. (That prophecy has come true.)
  • Những dự đoán của anh ấy về thị trường đều ứng nghiệm. (His predictions about the market all proved correct.)
  • Cảm giác lo lắng của cô ấy cuối cùng đã ứng nghiệm. (Her feeling of anxiety was finally validated.)

Advanced Usage

• The word often carries a nuance of something foretold or anticipated being fulfilled, and is frequently used in contexts involving prophecies, dreams, or intuitive feelings.
• It implies a process where an abstract idea meets and matches concrete reality.

Variants and Related Words

• Ứng (v): to respond, to correspond to. (Note: This is a component, not a direct variant in this meaning).
• Nghiệm (v): to verify, to check. (Note: This is a component, not a direct variant in this meaning).

Synonyms

• Come true: to happen as predicted.
• Be fulfilled: to be realized as expected.
• Be confirmed: to be shown to be true or correct.
• Materialize: to become a fact.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• Ứng nghiệm lời nói: for one's words to come true.
  • Mọi cảnh báo của ông ấy đều ứng nghiệm lời nói. (All his warnings came true.)
• Điềm ứng nghiệm: an omen that proves true.
  • Họ coi đó là một điềm ứng nghiệm. (They considered it an omen that came to pass.)