giẫm đạp
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Definition
- Verb:
- To trample upon: To step or walk heavily on something, often causing damage or destruction, typically used metaphorically to mean treating someone's rights, feelings, or dignity with contempt and disrespect.
- To crush underfoot: To treat something as worthless by ignoring or violating it completely.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Họ giẫm đạp lên quyền lợi của người khác. (They trample upon the rights of others.)
- Không được giẫm đạp lên lòng tự trọng của người khác. (One must not trample upon the self-respect of others.)
- Chế độ đó giẫm đạp lên tự do cá nhân. (That regime tramples upon individual freedom.)
Advanced Usage
- The term is almost exclusively used in a figurative, negative sense to describe severe moral or ethical violation, not a literal physical action.
- It implies a deliberate, arrogant, or cruel act of disregard, often by someone in a position of power.
Variants and Related Words
- Chà đạp (v): A very close synonym, also meaning to trample or oppress.
- Bị chà đạp về nhân phẩm. (To have one's dignity trampled.)
- Giày xéo (v): To trample, crush underfoot; often used interchangeably with in figurative contexts.
- Giày xéo lên ước mơ của người khác. (To trample on someone else's dreams.)
Synonyms
- Trample (upon): To treat with contemptuous disregard.
- Violate: To break or fail to comply with (a rule or formal agreement), especially pertaining to rights.
- Crush: To defeat or subdue completely in a way that shows no respect.
- Oppress: To keep in subservience and hardship, especially by the unjust exercise of authority.
Related Idioms
- Giẫm đạp lên lương tâm: To trample upon one's conscience; to act against one's moral principles.
- Anh ta đã giẫm đạp lên lương tâm để làm giàu. (He trampled upon his conscience to get rich.)
- Giẫm đạp lên nhau mà sống: To live by trampling on each other; describing a ruthless, dog-eat-dog social environment.
- Trong thế giới cạnh tranh đó, họ giẫm đạp lên nhau mà sống. (In that competitive world, they live by trampling on each other.)
- Trample upon
- Giẫm đạp lên quyền lợi của người khácTo trample upon others'interests