Definition

1. Verb:
   • To surround: To position forces or objects on all sides of a target, isolating it from the outside.
   • To encircle: To form a circle around something, often in a military or strategic context.
   • To blockade: To prevent access to or from an area, especially using military force.
   • To besiege: To surround a fortified place, such as a city or castle, with armed forces to compel its surrender.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Lực lượng nổi loạn đã bao vây đồn cảnh sát. (The rebel forces surrounded the police station.)
  • Thành phố bị hai trung đoàn địch bao vây. (The city is encircled by two enemy regiments.)
  • Mục tiêu là bao vây kinh tế địch. (The goal is to stage an economic blockade of the enemy.)
  • Cảnh sát bao vây một ổ hút thuốc phiện. (The police laid a siege to an opium den.)

Advanced Usage

• Military/Political Strategy: "Bao vây" can describe non-physical isolation, such as diplomatic or economic pressure intended to strangle an opponent.
  • Chiến lược bao vây và tiêu diệt. (The strategy of encirclement and annihilation.)

Variants and Related Words

• Sự bao vây (n): The act of surrounding; a siege or blockade.
  • Sự bao vây kéo dài hàng tháng. (The siege lasted for months.)
• Vòng vây (n): The ring or circle formed by surrounding forces.
  • Phá vỡ vòng vây của địch. (To break through the enemy's encirclement.)

Synonyms

• Encircle: To form a circle around.
• Besiege: To surround with armed forces.
• Blockade: To seal off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.
• Cordon off: To prevent access to an area by surrounding it.

Related Idioms

• Bao vây tứ phía: To surround from all four sides; to completely encircle.
  • Quân địch bao vây tứ phía. (The enemy troops surrounded us from all sides.)
• Thoát vòng vây: To break out of an encirclement.
  • Đơn vị đã anh dũng thoát vòng vây. (The unit heroically broke out of the encirclement.)

verb

1. to surround, to encircle, to blockade, to besiege, to lay a siege to
   • lực lượng nổi loạn đã bao vây bót cảnh sát từ sáng sớm đến sẫm tối
     the rebel forces surrounded the station police from dawn till dusk
   • thành phố bị hai trung đoàn địch bao vây
     the town is encircled by two enemy regiments
   • bao vây kinh tế địch
     to stage an economic blockade of the enemy areas
   • bao vây một ổ hút thuốc phiện
     to lay a siege to an opium den