hấp hơi
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Stuffy, close: Describes an enclosed space or container where air cannot circulate freely, leading to a feeling of being uncomfortably warm, damp, and lacking fresh air. It often implies a sense of suffocation or unpleasant staleness.
- Steamed, made soggy from trapped steam: Describes the state of something, especially food, that has become unpleasantly moist, soft, or soggy because steam has been trapped inside a sealed container.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Căn phòng nhỏ không cửa sổ rất hấp hơi. (The small room with no windows is very stuffy.)
- Đừng đậy nắp nồi cơm ngay, nó sẽ bị hấp hơi. (Don't cover the rice pot immediately, or it will become steamed/soggy.)
- Thời tiết hôm nay âm u và hấp hơi. (The weather today is gloomy and close.)
Advanced Usage
- The term is often used to describe an oppressive physical atmosphere but can be extended metaphorically to describe a stifling or oppressive situation.
- Bầu không khí trong cuộc họp thật hấp hơi và căng thẳng. (The atmosphere in the meeting was really stifling and tense.)
Variants and Related Words
- Ngột ngạt (adj): suffocating, oppressive. This is a stronger synonym often used for intense, unbearable stuffiness.
- Bí hơi (adj): stuffy, lacking air circulation. Very similar in meaning to .
Synonyms
- Stuffy: lacking fresh air.
- Close: uncomfortably warm and lacking air movement.
- Muggy: warm and damp in an unpleasant way (often for weather).
- Soggy: wet and soft in a negative way (for the food-related meaning).
Related Idioms
- While itself is not typically part of a fixed idiom, it describes the core state in common phrases.
- Cảm giác hấp hơi: the feeling of being in a stuffy environment.
- Đồ ăn bị hấp hơi: food that has gone soggy from trapped steam.