dọa
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Definition
- Verb:
- To threaten; to menace: To express an intention to cause harm, pain, or trouble to someone.
- To frighten; to scare; to intimidate: To cause someone to feel fear, often suddenly or as a means of control, using words or actions.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Nó dọa sẽ báo cảnh sát. (He threatened to call the police.)
- Đừng dọa tôi như thế! (Don't scare me like that!)
- Cô ấy dọa đứa trẻ bằng một con rắn đồ chơi. (She frightened the child with a toy snake.)
Advanced Usage
- "dọa dẫm": To threaten repeatedly or habitually; to use intimidation.
- Hắn ta thích dọa dẫm người khác để đạt mục đích. (He likes to intimidate others to get what he wants.)
- "dọa nạt": Similar to "dọa dẫm," meaning to threaten or bully.
- Bắt nạt và dọa nạt bạn học là không thể chấp nhận. (Bullying and threatening classmates is unacceptable.)
Variants and Related Words
- Đe dọa (v): A more formal synonym for "to threaten" or "to menace," often implying a serious danger.
- Hành động đó đe dọa đến an ninh quốc gia. (That action threatens national security.)
- Hù dọa (v): To startle or scare someone suddenly, often as a joke.
- Anh ta nhảy ra hù dọa tôi. (He jumped out to startle me.)
Synonyms
- Threaten: To state an intention to harm.
- Frighten: To cause fear.
- Intimidate: To make someone feel frightened or less confident, especially to force them to do something.
- Scare: To cause sudden fear or alarm.
Related Idioms
- Dọa ma: Literally "to scare (someone with) a ghost." It means to use an empty threat or to try to frighten someone with something that is not real or not serious.
- Lời cảnh báo của hắn chỉ là dọa ma thôi. (His warning was just an empty threat.)
- Dọa cho chừa: To scare someone (as a lesson) so they stop a bad behavior.
- Tôi phải dọa nó một phen cho chừa thói nói dối. (I had to give him a good scare to cure him of his lying habit.)
verb
- to menace; to intimidate