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Definition
- Adjective:
- Be well-cooked / be well-done: Describes food, especially meat or tough vegetables, that has been cooked for a long time until it becomes very soft, tender, and easily falls apart.
- Feel a pervasive ache or soreness: Describes a state of physical discomfort that is deep, widespread, and thorough throughout the body, such as from exhaustion, injury, or illness.
Usage Examples
- Adjective (well-cooked):
- Thịt hầm nhừ. (The meat was well-stewed / cooked until very tender.)
- Nấu nhừ thịt. (To cook the meat until it is very soft.)
- Adjective (pervasive ache):
- Ngã đau nhừ cả người. (To feel a pervasive pain all over one's body after a fall.)
- Hôm nay trở trời mỏi nhừ. (Today, with the change in weather, I feel pervasively sore and tired.)
Advanced Usage
- "nhừ tử": An intensified form meaning "completely softened" (for food) or "utterly exhausted/beaten" (for a person).
- Quân địch bị đánh nhừ tử. (The enemy was thoroughly beaten.)
- Used as an intensifier following adjectives like "mệt" (tired) or "đau" (painful) to emphasize the total and thorough nature of the state.
Variants and Related Words
- Nát nhừ (adj): Refers to something, often food, that is cooked or mashed into a pulpy, mushy consistency.
- Quả đu đủ nát nhừ. (The papaya was mashed to a pulp.)
Synonyms
- Well-done / Tender: For food (e.g., fall-apart, soft).
- Thoroughly sore / Aching all over: For physical state (e.g., completely sore, racked with pain).
Related Idioms
- Mệt nhừ: To be dead tired, completely exhausted.
- Làm việc cả ngày, tôi mệt nhừ. (Working all day, I am completely exhausted.)
- Đau nhừ: To ache terribly and pervasively.
- Sau buổi tập, chân tay đau nhừ. (After the workout, my limbs ache terribly.)
- Be well-cooked, be well-done
- Thịt hầm nhừ Themeat was well-stewed
- Feel a pervasive pain (numbness...)
- Ngã đau nhừ cả ngườiTo feela pervasive pain all over one's body after a fall
- Hôm nay trở trời mỏi nhừTo feel a pervasive numbness because of a change in the weather