mổ
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Definition
- 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
- to operate;to dissect
- phòng mổoperating room
- sự mổ bụng tự sáthara-kiri