Definition

1. Verb:
   • To leave: To go away from a place, person, or situation, often implying a final or significant departure.
   • To abandon: To cease to support or look after someone; to desert. To give up completely a practice, belief, or course of action.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Anh ấy đã rời bỏ công ty sau mười năm làm việc. (He left the company after ten years of service.)
  • Cô ấy không thể rời bỏ đứa con của mình. (She could not abandon her child.)
  • Họ buộc phải rời bỏ ngôi nhà do bão. (They were forced to leave their house because of the storm.)

Advanced Usage

• "rời bỏ thế gian / trần tục": To leave the secular world; often used in a religious or philosophical context to mean renouncing worldly life.
  • Vị tu sĩ đã rời bỏ thế gian để tìm sự bình an nội tâm. (The monk left the secular world to find inner peace.)

Variants and Related Words

• Rời (v): To depart, to leave a place. This is the core verb, often less emotionally heavy than "rời bỏ".

  • Chuyến tàu sẽ rời ga lúc 5 giờ. (The train will depart from the station at 5 o'clock.)

• Bỏ (v): To abandon, to give up, to discard. This verb is very broad and can be combined with many objects.

  • Đừng bỏ cuộc! (Don't give up!)

Synonyms

• Leave: To go away from.
• Abandon: To desert or leave completely and finally.
• Forsake: To renounce or turn away from entirely (more literary).
• Depart: To leave, especially to start a journey.

Related Idioms

• Rời bỏ cõi đời / rời bỏ trần gian: To pass away, to die (a euphemism).

  • Cụ ông đã thanh thản rời bỏ cõi đời. (The old man peacefully passed away.)

• Rời bỏ vòng tay: To leave someone's care or embrace, often emotionally.

  • Đứa trẻ rời bỏ vòng tay mẹ để bước vào lớp học. (The child left his mother's embrace to enter the classroom.)

1. Leave, abandon
   • Rời bỏ quê hương xứ sở
     To leave one's country