Definition

1. Verb phrase:
   • To vanish without a trace: To disappear completely, leaving no visible sign or clue as to one's whereabouts or destination.
   • To be lost from sight: To go or move out of the field of vision, often into a crowd, distance, or obscurity, making it impossible to follow visually.

Usage Examples

• Verb phrase:
  • Chiếc xe tải rẽ vào con hẻm nhỏ và mất hút. (The truck turned into a narrow alley and vanished without a trace.)
  • Cô ấy đi mất hút vào trong đám đông hỗn loạn. (She disappeared into the chaotic crowd.)
  • Sau vụ scandal, ông ta đã mất hút khỏi giới truyền thông. (After the scandal, he vanished from the media.)

Advanced Usage

• Used to describe the complete and often sudden disappearance of people, objects, or even abstract things like sounds or signals.
  • Tín hiệu vệ tinh đã mất hút. (The satellite signal was lost.)
  • Hy vọng cuối cùng cũng mất hút. (The last hope vanished.)

Variants and Related Words

• Biến mất (v): to disappear. A more general synonym.

  • Chìa khóa của tôi biến mất rồi. (My keys have disappeared.)

• Bặt vô âm tín (idiomatic phrase): to lose all contact, to not send any news.

  • Anh ta đi nước ngoài và bặt vô âm tín. (He went abroad and we haven't heard from him since.)

Synonyms

• Disappear: To cease to be visible.
• Vanish: To disappear suddenly and completely.
• Be lost to sight: To no longer be able to be seen.

Related Idioms

• Mất tích: to be missing (often used in more formal or serious contexts, like police reports).

  • Cậu bé đó đã mất tích ba ngày. (That boy has been missing for three days.)

• Mất tăm mất tích: to vanish completely (an emphatic, colloquial combination).

  • Hắn mượn tiền rồi mất tăm mất tích. (He borrowed money and then vanished off the face of the earth.)