gặng
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Definition
Verb: - To press someone with repeated questions; to question someone closely and persistently until an answer is obtained.
Usage Examples
- (He only spoke after being pressed repeatedly.)
- (The reporter pressed the minister closely about the scandal.)
- (She questioned me persistently until I had to reveal the secret.)
Advanced Usage
- The word is often used in the compound form "gặng hỏi", which explicitly means "to interrogate persistently".
- Đừng gặng hỏi đứa trẻ như thế. (Don't question the child so persistently.)
Variants and Related Words
- Gặng hỏi (v): To interrogate or question insistently. This is the most common compound form.
Synonyms
- Press: To ask for something in an urgent or persistent way.
- Grill: To question intensely and persistently.
- Probe: To ask searching questions.
Related Idioms
- While "gặng" itself is core to the idiom "gặng hỏi", a related concept is the act of "hỏi xoáy" (to ask pointed, drilling questions), which shares a similar sense of persistent interrogation.
- (cũng nói gặng hỏi) Question closely (until one gets an answer...)
- gặng mãi nó mới chịu nóiHe only spoke after a very close questioning