Definition

1. Verb:
   • To spread all over: To extend or distribute over a wide area, often rapidly and uncontrollably. It describes something moving from its point of origin to cover a larger, often undesired, scope.
   • To proliferate: To grow or increase quickly and widely.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Tin đồn lan tràn khắp trường học. (The rumor spread all over the school.)
  • Ngọn lửa lan tràn nhanh chóng trong khu rừng khô. (The fire spread rapidly through the dry forest.)
  • Căn bệnh đang lan tràn ra nhiều tỉnh thành. (The disease is spreading to many provinces.)

Advanced Usage

• The verb often carries a negative connotation, describing the uncontrolled or undesirable spread of things like disease, fire, or misinformation.
• It can be used in both literal (physical spread) and figurative (abstract spread) contexts.

Variants and Related Words

• Lan rộng (v): To spread out, to expand. Often used more neutrally than "lan tràn."
  • Ảnh hưởng của ông ấy lan rộng. (His influence spread widely.)
• Bùng phát (v): To erupt, to break out. Often refers to the sudden, intense beginning of something that then "lan tràn."
  • Dịch bệnh bùng phát và nhanh chóng lan tràn. (The epidemic broke out and quickly spread.)

Synonyms

• To spread: The most general synonym.
• To propagate: To spread and promote.
• To permeate: To spread throughout every part of.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• Lan tràn như dịch bệnh: To spread like a disease/wildfire.
  • Trào lưu đó lan tràn như dịch bệnh trong giới trẻ. (That trend spread like a disease among the youth.)
• Không thể ngăn cản sự lan tràn: The spread cannot be stopped.
  • Họ không thể ngăn cản sự lan tràn của thông tin sai lệch. (They could not stop the spread of misinformation.)

verb

1. to spread all over