khánh kiệt
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Definition
- 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.)
- all spent; exhausted; quite use up