dầm dề
Definition
- Adjective:
- Soaked; drenched; oozingly wet: Describes something thoroughly and completely wet, often with liquid visibly present or dripping.
- Protracted; long-drawn-out: Used to describe an event, especially rain, that continues for a very long and tedious duration.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Sau trận mưa, con đường đất trở nên dầm dề. (After the rain, the dirt road became soaked and muddy.)
- Cô ấy khóc, nước mắt dầm dề. (She cried, her eyes overflowing with tears.)
- Trời mưa dầm dề suốt ba ngày. (It rained incessantly for three days.)
Advanced Usage
- The word often carries a connotation of an excessive, unpleasant, or burdensome amount of wetness or duration.
- It can be used figuratively to describe an overwhelming abundance of something non-liquid, such as sorrow or sentiment, though this is less common.
Variants and Related Words
- Dầm (v): To soak; to steep. This is the root verb.
- Phải dầm quần áo trong nước lạnh. (One must soak the clothes in cold water.)
Synonyms
- Soaked: Thoroughly wet.
- Drenched: Wet through and through.
- Incessant: Continuing without interruption (for the prolonged sense).
- Waterlogged: Saturated with water.
Related Idioms
- While "dầm dề" itself is not typically part of a fixed idiom, it is the standard descriptive term for persistent rain.
- Mưa dầm dề: Protracted, incessant rain. This is a common collocation.
adj
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soaked; oozingly wet
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nước mắt dầm dềEyes overflowing with tears
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