cắt ruột
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Piercing, excruciating, agonizing: Describes an extremely intense and sharp pain, as if being cut in the intestines. It conveys a sense of severe, gut-wrenching suffering.
- Biting, severe, intense: Describes an extreme and penetrating cold that feels as if it cuts to the core.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Cô ấy cảm thấy đau cắt ruột sau ca phẫu thuật. (She felt excruciating pain after the surgery.)
- Trời đông, cơn gió bấc mang theo cái rét cắt ruột. (In winter, the north wind brings a biting cold.)
- Nghe tin dữ, nỗi đau cắt ruột khiến anh ta gục ngã. (Upon hearing the bad news, the agonizing pain made him collapse.)
Advanced Usage
- "Đau cắt ruột": This is the most common fixed collocation, meaning "excruciating pain" or "piercing pain." It is often used to describe both physical and emotional pain.
- Nỗi đau cắt ruột của người mẹ mất con không gì có thể diễn tả nổi. (The excruciating pain of a mother losing her child is indescribable.)
- "Rét cắt ruột": A fixed collocation describing an intense, penetrating cold.
- Những người vô gia cư phải chịu đựng cái rét cắt ruột trong đêm đông. (The homeless had to endure the biting cold on winter nights.)
Variants and Related Words
- Cắt cổ (adj): Literally "cut-throat." Used figuratively to describe exorbitantly high prices (e.g., - cut-throat prices). While both and use "cắt" for intensity, is not typically used for pain or cold.
- Buốt (adj): Aching, piercing (often for cold or a dull pain). can describe cold () or pain (), but is generally less intense than .
- Quặn (v): To cramp, to writhe (in pain). Often used for abdominal pain ( - cramping pain). It describes a specific type of spasmodic pain, whereas is more about the sharp, cutting intensity.
Synonyms
- Đau đớn tột cùng / Đau đớn dữ dội: Extreme / severe pain.
- Buốt giá / Rét thấu xương: Biting cold / bone-chilling cold.
- Xé lòng: Heart-wrenching, heart-rending (primarily for emotional pain).
Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)
(This section is less applicable as 'cắt ruột' is primarily used in fixed adjectival phrases and is not a verb that forms phrasal verbs.)
Related Idioms
- Đau như cắt: Hurts as if being cut. A simile expressing sharp, sudden pain, similar in imagery to but shorter.
- Vết thương làm anh ta đau như cắt. (The wound made him hurt as if being cut.)
- Xót xa tận ruột gan: To feel pained to the very core of one's being. Used for deep emotional sorrow or regret.
- Nhìn cảnh đó, bà cụ xót xa tận ruột gan. (Seeing that scene, the old woman felt pained to her very core.)
- (Đau cắt ruột)A piercing pain
- Rét cắt ruộtBiting cold