Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Soundly, thoroughly, or severely (beaten/thrashed): Used to describe the state of being beaten or hit so hard that it causes severe pain or injury, often implying a crushing or overwhelming defeat.
   • Hard, intensely (working/laboring): Used to describe working with extreme effort, intensity, or difficulty, often to the point of exhaustion, typically to earn a living.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Bọn côn đồ đánh nạn nhân giập mật. (The thugs beat the victim soundly.)
  • Ông ấy phải làm giập mật mới đủ tiền nuôi gia đình. (He has to work extremely hard to have enough money to support his family.)

Advanced Usage

• This word is often used in informal or colloquial contexts to emphasize the extreme degree of an action, either violence or labor. It carries a strong connotation of hardship and intensity.

Variants and Related Words

• Giập (verb): To crush, to smash, to flatten. This is the root verb, and intensifies its meaning.
• Làm giập mật (verb phrase): To work one's fingers to the bone; to work extremely hard.

Synonyms

• Tàn bạo (adj): Brutally, savagely (for beating).
• Cật lực (adj): With all one's strength, strenuously (for working).
• Điên cuồng (adj): Frenziedly, intensely.

Related Phrases

• Đánh cho giập mật: To beat someone to a pulp; to thrash someone soundly.
  • Tên trộm bị dân làng bắt và đánh cho giập mật. (The thief was caught by the villagers and beaten soundly.)
• Làm lụng giập mật: To labor intensively; to work one's fingers to the bone.
  • Người nông dân làm lụng giập mật cả đời trên cánh đồng. (The farmer labored intensively his whole life in the fields.)

Related Idioms

• While itself is not a common standalone idiom, it is a key component in the fixed phrases mentioned above (, ), which are idiomatic expressions describing severe beating or hard labor.

1. Soundly (beat, thrash)
   • Đánh ai giập mật
     To beat someone soundly
2. Hard
   • Làm giập mật để kiếm sống
     To work hard to earn one's living