cụt
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Cut off; lopped: Describes something that has had a part, typically an end or a limb, removed or severed, resulting in a shortened or truncated state.
- Blind (of an alley, street): Describes a passage, such as a street or alley, that has no exit; a dead end.
- Depleted; severely reduced: Describes something, often resources like capital, that has been mostly lost or significantly diminished.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Cái cây bị cụt ngọn. (The tree has its top lopped off.)
- Đây là một con đường cụt. (This is a dead-end street.)
- Sau vụ đầu tư thất bại, ông ấy bị cụt vốn. (After the failed investment, his capital was severely depleted.)
Advanced Usage
"cụt hứng": to have one's enthusiasm or mood suddenly cut short or dampened.
- Câu chuyện buồn làm tôi cụt hứng. (The sad story killed my mood.)
"cụt lủn": (colloquial) describes something being very short, stumpy, or abruptly cut off.
- Chiếc đuôi con chó bị cụt lủn. (The dog's tail is very stumpy.)
Variants and Related Words
Cụt tay (adj): having a hand or arm amputated.
- Người thương binh cụt tay. (The war veteran with an amputated arm.)
Cụt chân (adj): having a foot or leg amputated.
- Anh ấy bị cụt chân sau tai nạn. (He lost his leg after the accident.)
Ngõ cụt / Đường cụt (n): a dead-end alley or street.
- Xe không thể đi vào ngõ cụt. (The car cannot go into the dead-end alley.)
Synonyms
- Truncated: shortened by cutting off a part.
- Amputated: (for limbs) cut off surgically.
- Dead-end: (for streets) having no exit.
- Depleted: reduced in quantity or resources.
Related Idioms
Cụt đầu cụt đuôi: to be incoherent or incomplete (of a story or speech); literally "headless and tailless."
- Câu chuyện kể cụt đầu cụt đuôi, chẳng ai hiểu. (The story was told incoherently; no one understood.)
Nói cụt ngủn / Nói cụt lủn: to speak very abruptly or bluntly, using very few words.
- Cậu ấy trả lời cụt lủn: "Không". (He answered bluntly: "No.")