Definition

1. Verb:
   • To weed, to clear (vegetation): The primary meaning is to remove weeds or unwanted plants from an area of land.
   • To level, to make even (a surface): To make a surface flat and smooth, often by removing high spots or filling in low spots.
   • To bribe, to buy off (someone): To give money or favors to someone, especially someone in authority, to influence their actions or decisions.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Anh ấy đang giẩy cỏ trong vườn. (He is weeding the grass in the garden.)
  • Trước khi xây nhà, họ phải giẩy mặt bằng cho thật phẳng. (Before building the house, they have to level the ground to make it very flat.)
  • Hắn định giẩy quan chức để được thông quan. (He intended to bribe the official to get the customs clearance.)

Advanced Usage

• "giẩy đất": to level land/soil.

  • Máy ủi được dùng để giẩy đất cho công trường. (The bulldozer is used to level the land for the construction site.)

• "giẩy cỏ dại": to weed out/remove weeds.

  • Công việc giẩy cỏ dại rất vất vả. (The work of weeding out the weeds is very hard.)

Variants and Related Words

• Giẫy (verb): This is a common variant spelling of giẩy, used interchangeably in modern Vietnamese, especially for the meanings "to weed" and "to level".
• Cỏ dại (noun): weed(s).
• Hối lộ (verb): to bribe (a more common and direct synonym for the "bribe" meaning).

Synonyms

• Nhổ cỏ (verb phrase): to pull weeds (for the "weed" meaning).
• San bằng, làm phẳng (verb phrases): to level, to flatten (for the "level" meaning).
• Đút lót, mua chuộc (verbs): to bribe, to buy over (for the "bribe" meaning).

Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)

• Giẩy đi: to weed/clear away.
  • Hãy giẩy đi đám cỏ mọc trước cửa. (Please weed away the grass growing in front of the door.)

Related Idioms

• Giẩy cỏ tìm sâu: Literally "to weed the grass to find worms". This idiom means to nitpick, to look for faults or problems where there are none, or to stir up trouble.
  • Đừng có giẩy cỏ tìm sâu nữa, mọi việc đã ổn rồi. (Stop nitpicking, everything is fine now.)

1. Weed (a plot of ground), clean
   • Giẩy cỏ đường đi
     To weed a path
2. Level
   • Giẩy sân
     To level a yard
3. Bribe with money, buy over