dỗ
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Definition
- Verb:
- To coax; to soothe; to comfort: To gently persuade or calm someone, especially a child, using kind words or actions.
- To shake; to tap: To strike an object against a surface to clean it, align it, or make it level.
Usage Examples
- Verb (to coax/soothe):
- Mẹ đang dỗ đứa bé đang khóc. (The mother is soothing the crying baby.)
- Anh ấy dỗ em gái bằng một câu chuyện. (He coaxed his younger sister with a story.)
- Verb (to shake/tap):
- Dỗ chiếu cho sạch bụi. (Shake the mat to clean off the dust.)
- Dỗ đũa cho bằng. (Tap the chopsticks to even them out.)
Advanced Usage
- "dỗ ngon dỗ ngọt": To coax very sweetly and persistently; to use honeyed words to persuade.
- Cô ấy dỗ ngon dỗ ngọt để tôi đồng ý. (She coaxed me sweetly to get my agreement.)
Variants and Related Words
- Dỗ dành (v): A more emphatic or prolonged form of "dỗ," meaning to comfort, to pacify, to cajole.
- Bà nội dỗ dành cháu hết nước nói. (The grandmother comforted her grandchild with every soothing word she had.)
Synonyms
- To coax: To persuade gently.
- To soothe: To calm or comfort.
- To comfort: To console.
- To shake: To cause to move back and forth.
- To tap: To strike lightly.
Related Idioms
- Dỗ như dỗ trẻ con: To coax someone as if they were a child; to treat someone with excessive, condescending coaxing.
- Đừng có dỗ tôi như dỗ trẻ con! (Don't coax me as if I were a child!)
verb
- to coax; to sooth; to comfort
- dỗ đứa bé đang khócto sooth a crying baby to shake
- dỗ chiếu cho sạch bụito shake a mat clean of dist