Definition

1. Verb:
   • To peck: To strike or pick up with a beak, as a bird does when eating.
   • To operate / to perform surgery: To cut into a living body, especially for medical treatment or examination.
   • To slaughter / to butcher: To kill an animal, typically livestock, by cutting its throat or opening its body for meat.
   • To dissect: To cut open and examine a body or organism, often for scientific study.
   • To overcharge / to gouge (colloquial): To sell something at an exorbitantly high price.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Con gà đang mổ thóc trên sân. (The chicken is pecking at rice grains in the yard.)
  • Bác sĩ sẽ mổ khối u vào sáng mai. (The doctor will operate on the tumor tomorrow morning.)
  • Họ mổ một con lợn để chuẩn bị cho lễ hội. (They slaughtered a pig to prepare for the festival.)
  • Sinh viên y khoa học cách mổ xác. (Medical students learn how to dissect a corpse.)
  • Cửa hàng đó mổ khách du lịch với giá cao. (That store gouges tourists with high prices.)

Advanced Usage

• "mổ xẻ": To analyze or dissect (a topic, problem) in great detail.
  • Hội thảo mổ xẻ nguyên nhân của cuộc khủng hoảng. (The seminar dissected the causes of the crisis.)

Variants and Related Words

• Phòng mổ (n): Operating room.

  • Bệnh nhân được đưa vào phòng mổ. (The patient was taken into the operating room.)

• Mổ bụng (v): To perform an abdominal operation; to slit open the abdomen.

  • Ca mổ bụng kéo dài ba tiếng. (The abdominal surgery lasted three hours.)

• Mổ cướp (v, colloquial): To overcharge/rip off in a blatant, aggressive manner.

  • Anh ta bị tố mổ cướp khách hàng. (He was accused of blatantly overcharging customers.)

Synonyms

• Peck: To strike with a beak.
• Operate: To perform a surgical procedure.
• Slaughter: To kill an animal for food.
• Dissect: To cut apart for analysis.
• Gouge: To overcharge excessively.

Related Idioms

• Ầm ầm như mổ bò: Very noisy and chaotic (literally: "as noisy as slaughtering a cow").

  • Lớp học ầm ầm như mổ bò. (The classroom was as noisy as a slaughterhouse.)

• Mổ cò: To pickpocket or steal (slang, derived from the pecking action).

  • Cần cảnh giác với bọn mổ cò trên xe buýt. (Be wary of pickpockets on the bus.)

verb

1. to operate;to dissect
   • phòng mổ
     operating room
   • sự mổ bụng tự sát
     hara-kiri