Definition

1. Verb:
   • To feel indignant, to be outraged: To experience a strong feeling of anger and disapproval, typically because of something perceived as unjust, cruel, or offensive.
   • To resent bitterly: To feel intense, deep-seated anger and hostility.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Nhân dân căm phẫn trước hành động xâm lược. (The people are outraged by the act of invasion.)
  • Cô ấy căm phẫn sự bất công đó. (She feels deep indignation at that injustice.)
  • Chúng tôi căm phẫn tội ác của bọn buôn người. (We are filled with indignation at the crimes of the human traffickers.)

Advanced Usage

• "dâng trào căm phẫn": (indignation) surges, rises up.
  • Lòng căm phẫn dâng trào trong anh. (Indignation surged within him.)
• "nuôi căm phẫn": to harbor/nurse resentment.
  • Hắn nuôi lòng căm phẫn suốt nhiều năm. (He harbored resentment for many years.)

Variants and Related Words

• Căm hờn (verb): A near-synonym combining anger () and hatred (), meaning to feel furious hatred.
• Phẫn nộ (verb/adjective): Another close synonym meaning to be indignant, furious. Often used interchangeably with , with sometimes implying a more immediate, fiery anger.
• Căm giận (verb): To be angry and hateful.
• Căm thù (verb): To hate, to feel hatred (focuses more on hatred than indignation).

Synonyms

• Phẫn nộ: to be indignant, furious.
• Uất ức: to feel resentful and wronged (often implies pent-up frustration).
• Căm hờn: to feel hateful anger.

Idioms and Fixed Expressions

• "Lòng căm phẫn sôi sục": boiling/seething indignation.
  • Lòng căm phẫn sôi sục trong lòng người dân. (Seething indignation filled the hearts of the people.)
• "Căm phẫn đến tận xương tủy": to be indignant to the very marrow (of one's bones); to feel profound, deep-seated outrage.

1. To feel indignant
   • căm phẫn trước những tội ác dã man của bọn khủng bố
     to feel indignant at the terrorists' heinous crimes
   • làn sóng căm phẫn
     a wave of indignation