sảng
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Delirious: Describes a state of mental confusion, often due to high fever or illness, characterized by incoherent speech, restlessness, and hallucinations.
- Verb:
- To rave / to be delirious: The act of speaking or behaving in a wild, incoherent, or irrational way, typically while in a state of delirium.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Bệnh nhân đang rất sảng vì sốt cao. (The patient is very delirious due to high fever.)
- Verb:
- Ông ấy bắt đầu sảng sau ca phẫu thuật. (He began to rave after the surgery.)
- Cô ấy sốt đến mức nói sảng cả đêm. (She had such a high fever that she raved all night.)
Advanced Usage
- The word "sảng" is most commonly used in the fixed medical or descriptive phrase "nói sảng" (to talk deliriously).
- It is frequently associated with the compound "mê sảng", which is a more formal term for delirium.
Variants and Related Words
- Mê sảng (n/v): Delirium; to be in a state of delirium.
- Anh ấy lên cơn mê sảng. (He had an episode of delirium.)
- Nói sảng (v): To talk deliriously; to rave incoherently.
- Bà cụ nói sảng vì ốm nặng. (The old woman talked deliriously because she was seriously ill.)
Synonyms
- Delirious: Acutely disturbed state of mind.
- To rave: To talk wildly or incoherently.
- Incoherent: Unable to speak or express thoughts clearly.
Related Idioms
- Sốt quá hóa sảng: A common saying meaning "a fever so high it causes delirium" or, figuratively, a state of extreme agitation or confusion.
- Đừng để áp lực khiến bạn sốt quá hóa sảng. (Don't let the pressure make you lose your head.)
- tính từ, động từ delirious, to rave
- sốt quá hóa sảngto rave out of high fever