lùng

Thân thiện

Công an lùng mấy tên phản động.

Definitions

1. Verb:
   • To search thoroughly, to scour: "Lùng" means to search for someone or something in a very thorough, intensive, and often widespread manner, checking many places.
   • To hunt for, to pursue: It can imply actively hunting down or pursuing a person, often with the connotation of a chase or manhunt.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Công an đang lùng tên tội phạm khắp thành phố. (The police are scouring the entire city for the criminal.)
  • Anh ấy lùng khắp các hiệu sách cũ để tìm cuốn tiểu thuyết đó. (He hunted through all the old bookstores for that novel.)

Advanced Usage

• "lùng sục": to search and rummage through; implies an even more vigorous and invasive search.
  • Bọn trẻ lùng sục trong gác mái tìm đồ chơi cũ. (The children rummaged through the attic looking for old toys.)

Variants and Related Words

• Lùng bắt (verb phrase): to hunt down and capture.
  • Nhà chức trách đang lùng bắt kẻ trốn thuế. (The authorities are hunting down the tax evader.)
• Lùng sục (verb): see "Advanced Usage".
• Truy lùng (verb): to pursue, to hunt down (often used in official/legal contexts).
  • Lệnh truy lùng tên tội phạm đã được phát ra. (A warrant has been issued to hunt down the criminal.)

Synonyms

• Tìm kiếm: to search, to look for (more general and neutral).
• Sục sạo: to rummage through, to search thoroughly (often in a specific area).
• Truy tìm: to track down, to seek out.

Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)

• Lùng cho ra: to search until found.
  • Cô ấy quyết tâm lùng cho ra sự thật. (She is determined to search until she uncovers the truth.)

Related Idioms

• Lùng như lùng sắt: (idiomatic) to search extremely thoroughly, leaving no stone unturned. Literally "to search as if searching for iron".
  • Cảnh sát lùng như lùng sắt khắp khu rừng. (The police scoured the entire forest, leaving no stone unturned.)

Học thuật

1. Scour
   • Dân quân lùng mấy tên biệt kích
     Themilitia was scouring every place for enemy commandoes