loang
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Definition
Verb:
- To spread: To extend over a surface or area gradually, often describing a liquid, color, stain, or intangible thing like fire or disease moving outward from a point of origin.
- To seep / to bleed: To diffuse or soak into a surrounding area, often creating an irregular, blotchy pattern, especially for liquids on absorbent surfaces or dyes on fabric.
Verb (descriptive):
- To be blotchy / to be streaked: To have an uneven appearance with patches or streaks of a different color mixed into a base color.
Usage Examples
Verb (to spread):
- Nước loang khắp mặt bàn. (The water spread all over the table.)
- Tin đồn đã loang rất nhanh. (The rumor spread very quickly.)
- Lửa bắt đầu loang sang các ngôi nhà khác. (The fire began to spread to other houses.)
Verb (to be blotchy):
- Chiếc áo trắng bị loang mực. (The white shirt was stained with blotches of ink.)
- Màu nhuộm bị loang không đều. (The dye color was streaked unevenly.)
Advanced Usage
- Used to describe the pervasive, often unstoppable nature of a phenomenon.
- Sự bất mãn loang ra trong cộng đồng. (The discontent spread within the community.)
Variants and Related Words
Loang lổ (adj): Describes a surface covered with many irregular spots or patches of different colors.
- Bức tường loang lổ vết ẩm mốc. (The wall was blotchy with damp stains.)
Loang ra (phrasal verb): To spread out.
- Vết dầu đang loang ra trên mặt nước. (The oil slick is spreading out on the water's surface.)
Synonyms
- Spread: To extend over a larger area.
- Diffuse: To spread or cause to spread over a wide area.
- Bleed: For a liquid or color to spread into another material.
- Seep: To flow or leak slowly.
Related Idioms and Phrases
- Loang như vết dầu: To spread like an oil slick; used to describe something (often negative like a rumor or problem) that expands rapidly and uncontrollably.
- Cuộc khủng hoảng tài chính loang như vết dầu. (The financial crisis spread like an oil slick.)