Definition

Verb: - To lift, to take up (for transplanting elsewhere): The primary meaning refers to the specific action of digging up a plant, tree, or shrub along with the root ball and surrounding soil to move and replant it in a new location. It implies careful extraction to ensure the plant's survival.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Người làm vườn đang bứng cây mai để đem trồng trong chậu mới. (The gardener is lifting the apricot tree to plant it in a new pot.)
  • Chúng tôi phải bứng cây cổ thụ này một cách cẩn thận để chuyển đến công viên. (We have to carefully take up this ancient tree to move it to the park.)
  • Không nên bứng cây vào mùa khô. (One should not transplant plants during the dry season.)

Advanced Usage

• "bứng đi": to lift and take away, to remove (a plant) for transplanting.
  • Họ quyết định bứng đi những bụi hoa hồng cũ. (They decided to take up the old rose bushes.)
• Used metaphorically in informal contexts to mean relocating a household or business, emphasizing the uprooting.
  • Gia đình ấy đã bứng đi nơi khác sinh sống. (That family uprooted and moved to live elsewhere.)

Variants and Related Words

• Nhổ (verb): To pull up, to uproot. Unlike , often implies pulling out by the stem/trunk, possibly without preserving the root ball (e.g., nhổ cỏ / to weed).
• Đào (verb): To dig. A more general term for digging. is a specific type of focused on transplanting.
• Chuyển (verb): To move, to transfer. The general action of moving something, which is the goal of .
• Trồng lại (verb): To replant. This is the action typically performed after .

Synonyms

• Transplant (verb): To move a plant from one place and plant it in another. This is the closest direct synonym in English for the core meaning.
• Lift (verb): (Gardening) To dig up plants, especially bulbs or perennials, for storage or transplanting.
• Take up (phrasal verb): Can be used in a gardening context similar to .

Related Phrases

• Bứng cây: The most common collocation, meaning "to lift/transplant a plant/tree".
• Bứng bầu: Emphasizes the action of lifting with the root ball ( đất).
• Bứng đi trồng nơi khác: The full phrase describing the purpose: "to lift and plant elsewhere".

Notes on Meaning

This word is highly specific to horticulture, agriculture, and landscaping. Its core meaning is always tied to the careful removal of a living plant with its roots and soil intact for the purpose of relocation. Any metaphorical use derives from this primary, concrete meaning.

verb

1. To lift, to take up (để chuyển đi trồng nơi khác)