Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Completely exhausted or depleted: Describes a state where resources, finances, or energy are entirely used up, leaving nothing remaining.
   • Utterly bankrupt or ruined: Refers to a condition of total financial destitution or the complete loss of wealth.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Sau trận chiến kéo dài, nguồn lực của đất nước đã khánh kiệt. (After the prolonged war, the country's resources were completely exhausted.)
  • Công ty đó đã phá sản và hiện nay tài chính đã khánh kiệt. (That company went bankrupt and is now financially ruined.)
  • Sức khỏe của ông ấy đã khánh kiệt sau một thời gian dài làm việc quá sức. (His health was utterly depleted after a long period of overwork.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is often used in formal or literary contexts to emphasize a state of total and irreversible depletion, more severe than simple exhaustion.

Variants and Related Words

• Làm khánh kiệt (verb phrase): to exhaust completely, to deplete utterly.
  • Chiến tranh làm khánh kiệt ngân khố quốc gia. (The war utterly depleted the national treasury.)

Synonyms

• Exhausted: Used up completely.
• Depleted: Emptied or reduced wholly.
• Bankrupt: Financially ruined, unable to pay debts.
• Impoverished: Reduced to poverty.

Related Idioms

• Khánh kiệt tài nguyên: Natural resources are exhausted.
  • Việc khai thác quá mức dẫn đến khánh kiệt tài nguyên. (Over-exploitation leads to the exhaustion of natural resources.)
• Khánh kiệt sức lực: Physical strength is completely spent.
  • Người lính rời trận địa với sức lực khánh kiệt. (The soldier left the battlefield with his strength completely spent.)

1. all spent; exhausted; quite use up