hãm hại

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Definition
  1. Verb:
    • To harm; to injure: "hãm hại" means to cause damage, injury, or suffering to someone, often with a connotation of malice or premeditation.
    • To sabotage; to undermine: It can also imply acting to secretly undermine or destroy someone's well-being, position, or life.
Usage
  • The verb "hãm hại" is used to describe intentional, often secretive or treacherous, acts meant to cause harm. It carries a strong negative moral judgment.
  • It is typically used with a direct object (the person or thing being harmed).
  • Common Collocations: (to harm others), (to sabotage a colleague), (to be harmed/victimized).
Examples
  • Verb:
    • Hắn tìm cách hãm hại đối thủ của mình. (He sought ways to harm his rival.)
    • Nhiều người tốt đã bị hãm hại một cách oan uổng. (Many good people have been unjustly harmed.)
    • Không nên hãm hại nhau vì lợi ích cá nhân. (One should not harm each other for personal gain.)
Advanced Usage
  • "hãm hại lẫn nhau": to harm each other; mutual sabotage.
    • Trong môi trường cạnh tranh khốc liệt, họ có nguy cơ hãm hại lẫn nhau. (In a fiercely competitive environment, they risk harming each other.)
Variants and Related Words
  • Hãm (verb): This root can mean to brake, to curb, or to suppress. In the context of "hãm hại," it contributes the sense of "holding back" or "suppressing" someone destructively.
  • Hại (verb): to harm, to damage. This is the core meaning of causing injury.
  • Làm hại (verb phrase): to harm, to injure. A more general and common synonym.
  • Gian hại (verb, literary): to harm treacherously.
Synonyms
  • Làm hại: to harm, to injure (general term).
  • Gây tổn hại: to cause damage.
  • Phá hoại: to sabotage, to destroy (often for physical things or plans).
  • Ám hại: to assassinate; to harm/kill secretly (stronger, often implies murder).
Related Idioms/Phrases
  • Giở thủ đoạn hãm hại: to resort to harmful tricks/schemes.
    • Kẻ xấu luôn giở thủ đoạn hãm hại người lương thiện. (Evil people always resort to schemes to harm honest people.)
  • Bị hãm hại chết người: to be fatally harmed/victimized.
    • Nạn nhân bị hãm hại chết người trong một vụ án bí ẩn. (The victim was fatally harmed in a mysterious case.)
verb
  1. to harm; to injure

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