Definition

1. 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.")

adj

1. cut off; lopped; blind