rã ngũ

Thân thiện

Sau trận chiến, đạo quân đã rã ngũ và mỗi người đi một hướng.

Definition

1. Verb:
   • To desert en masse: To collectively and illegally abandon military service or flee from the army as a group. This term specifically describes the disbanding or scattering of a military unit due to widespread desertion.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Nghe tin thất trận, nhiều đơn vị đã rã ngũ. (Upon hearing news of the defeat, many units deserted en masse.)
  • Binh lính, vì thiếu lương thực và tinh thần sa sút, bắt đầu rã ngũ. (The soldiers, due to lack of food and low morale, began to desert en masse.)

Advanced Usage

• The term "rã ngũ" is almost exclusively used in historical or military contexts to describe the collapse of troop discipline and structure through collective abandonment. It implies a breakdown of order.

Variants and Related Words

• Đào ngũ (v): To desert (can refer to an individual or group, but not necessarily implying the same collective, simultaneous action as "rã ngũ").
  • Hắn bị kết tội đào ngũ. (He was convicted of desertion.)

Synonyms

• To disband (through desertion): To break up and scatter, specifically by soldiers leaving their posts.
• To melt away: Often used to describe an army disintegrating as soldiers leave.

Related Idioms

• While "rã ngũ" itself is the specific term, the concept is related to the idiom "tan tác như chim vỡ tổ" (to scatter like birds from a destroyed nest), which can describe a group, including soldiers, dispersing in panic.

Học thuật

1. Desert en masse from the army