lảo đảo
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Definition
Verb: * To stagger; to walk or stand unsteadily: Describes a movement that is unstable, swaying, or about to fall, often due to weakness, dizziness, intoxication, or carrying a heavy load. * To be unsteady; to totter; to reel: Refers to a state of losing balance, wobbling, or being on the verge of collapsing.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Người đàn ông say rượu lảo đảo bước ra khỏi quán bar. (The drunk man staggered out of the bar.)
- Sau cơn sốt, anh ấy cảm thấy chóng mặt và đi lảo đảo. (After the fever, he felt dizzy and walked unsteadily.)
- Cây cột bị mối ăn, trông lảo đảo sắp đổ. (The termite-eaten pillar looks unsteady and about to fall.)
Advanced Usage
- "lảo đảo vì...": to stagger because of...; to be unsteady due to...
- Lảo đảo vì đói. (To stagger from hunger.)
- Lảo đảo vì kiệt sức. (To reel from exhaustion.)
Variants and Related Words
- Chập chững (verb): To toddle (specifically for a young child's unsteady walk).
- Loạng choạng (verb): A near-synonym, also meaning to stagger or totter, often with a stronger implication of being on the verge of falling.
- Xiêu vẹo (adjective/verb): To be askew, crooked, or leaning; describes something tilted or not upright.
Synonyms
- Stagger (động từ): To walk or move unsteadily, as if about to fall.
- Totter (động từ): To move in a feeble or unsteady way.
- Reel (động từ): To stagger or sway violently.
- Wobble (động từ): To move with an unsteady side-to-side motion.
Related Phrases
- Đi lảo đảo: To walk/stagger along.
- Ông cụ đi lảo đảo trên con đường làng. (The old man walked unsteadily along the village road.)
verb
- to stagger; to be unsteady
- đi lảo đảoto stagger along