Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Completely destroyed, utterly wasted, ravaged completely: Used to describe plants, crops, or vegetation that have been completely destroyed, often by fire or disease, leaving nothing alive or usable.
   • Bare, stripped clean: Can describe a state where everything has been consumed or removed, leaving nothing behind.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Vườn cây bị cháy rụi sau trận hỏa hoạn. (The garden was completely ravaged after the fire.)
  • Cánh đồng lúa chết rụi vì hạn hán kéo dài. (The rice field was utterly wasted due to prolonged drought.)
  • Sau trận bão, khu rừng trơ trọi, cây cối gãy rụi. (After the storm, the forest was bare, with trees broken and destroyed.)

Advanced Usage

• "cháy rụi": burned to the ground, completely destroyed by fire.
  • Căn nhà cổ đã cháy rụi chỉ trong một đêm. (The old house burned to the ground in just one night.)
• "chết rụi": died out completely, perished utterly (for plants).
  • Toàn bộ vườn hoa chết rụi trong mùa đông khắc nghiệt. (The entire flower garden perished utterly during the harsh winter.)

Variants and Related Words

• Rụi rơi (adj, less common): Emphasizes a state of being scattered, fallen, and destroyed.
  • Lá cây rụi rơi khắp sân sau cơn gió mạnh. (Leaves lay scattered and fallen all over the yard after the strong wind.)
• Tiêu rụi (verb phrase): To be consumed completely, to be wiped out.
  • Số tiền tiết kiệm của anh ấy tiêu rụi sau chuyến du lịch. (His savings were completely consumed after the trip.)

Synonyms

• Tiêu tan: to vanish, to dissipate (often for non-physical things like hopes, money).
• Tan hoang: devastated, in ruins (often for buildings or places).
• Trơ trọi: bare, barren, stripped.

Notes on Different Meanings

• The word "rụi" in the construction sense (meaning or ), as noted in the Vietnamese-French dictionary, is a specialized architectural term and is not the common usage explained above. The primary and common meaning relates to complete destruction, especially of vegetation.
• In modern Vietnamese, when used alone, "rụi" almost exclusively carries the meaning of being completely destroyed or wasted. The architectural term is very rare and context-specific.

Related Idioms/Phrases

• "Cháy nhà ra mặt chuột" (equivalent to "When the house burns down, you see the rats"): A crisis reveals true character. This idiom shares the thematic element of destruction ("cháy" - burn) with "cháy rụi".
• "Trắng tay" (to be empty-handed): While not a direct synonym, it shares the concept of having nothing left, similar to the result implied by "tiêu rụi".

1. Waste, ravaged completely
   • Vườn cháy rụi
     The orchard was laid waste (ravaged completely) by fire
   • Lúa chết rụi
     The field was laid waste because all the rice plants were dead