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.

1. (cũng nói gặng hỏi) Question closely (until one gets an answer...)
   • gặng mãi nó mới chịu nói
     He only spoke after a very close questioning