nuốt chửng

Thân thiện

Cậu bé nuốt chửng viên thuốc với một ngụm nước.

Definition

1. Verb:
   • To swallow whole: To consume something, typically food, by taking it into the mouth and passing it down the throat without chewing.
   • To engulf / To swallow up: To completely and overwhelmingly envelop, consume, or destroy something, often in a figurative sense.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Con rắn nuốt chửng con chuột. (The snake swallows the mouse whole.)
  • Cơn sóng lớn nuốt chửng con thuyền. (The large wave engulfed the boat.)
  • Công ty lớn đó nuốt chửng nhiều đối thủ cạnh tranh nhỏ. (That large company swallowed up many small competitors.)

Advanced Usage

• Figurative Use: Often used to describe abstract concepts like promises, agreements, or resources being completely taken over or disregarded.
  • Hắn ta đã nuốt chửng lời hứa của mình. (He completely went back on his promise.)

Variants and Related Words

• Nuốt (v): To swallow. This is the base verb, while "nuốt chửng" emphasizes completeness or totality.
  • Nuốt thuốc. (To swallow medicine.)

Synonyms

• Engulf: To surround and cover completely.
• Consume: To use up or destroy.
• Devour: To eat quickly and greedily.

Related Idioms

• Nuốt hận: To swallow one's resentment; to be forced to accept an injustice without complaint.

  • Anh ấy đành phải nuốt hận. (He had to swallow his resentment.)

• Nuốt lời: To break one's word; to retract a promise.

  • Đừng bao giờ nuốt lời. (Never go back on your word.)

Học thuật

verb

1. to swallow up