Definition

1. Verb:
   • To feel deeply resentful and indignant: To experience intense emotional distress, bitterness, and frustration, often due to perceived injustice, unfair treatment, or humiliation that one feels powerless to address immediately.
   • To be choked with indignation: To feel such strong, suppressed anger and grievance that it creates a sensation of being stifled or suffocated emotionally.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Cô ấy uất ức vì bị đổ lỗi oan. (She felt deeply resentful because she was wrongly blamed.)
  • Sự bất công khiến anh ta uất ức đến nghẹn lời. (The injustice made him so indignant he was speechless.)
  • Nó uất ức khóc sau khi bị sỉ nhục. (He/She wept with bitter resentment after being humiliated.)

Advanced Usage

• This verb describes a complex, pent-up emotional state that combines anger, hurt, and a sense of powerlessness. It is stronger than simple annoyance ("bực tức") and implies a lingering, simmering feeling that has been internalized.
• It often appears in contexts of social or personal injustice, betrayal, or situations where one's dignity has been wounded.

Variants and Related Words

• Uất (v): To be choked with emotion, to feel stifled resentment. This is the root verb, with "uất ức" being a reduplicative form that intensifies the meaning.
  • Lòng đầy uất hận. (His/Her heart was full of bitter hatred.)
• Uất hận (v/n): To nurse a bitter grievance; bitter hatred and resentment.
  • Mối uất hận kéo dài nhiều năm. (A lasting grievance that went on for many years.)

Synonyms

• To resent: To feel bitterness or indignation at a circumstance, action, or person.
• To be indignant: To feel anger and surprise because of something unfair.
• To feel aggrieved: To feel resentment because of unfair treatment.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• Uất ức trong lòng: To harbor resentment in one's heart.
  • Anh ấy cứ ôm nỗi uất ức trong lòng mãi. (He kept harboring that resentment in his heart.)
• Chết vì uất ức: To die of resentment (figuratively); to be extremely frustrated and aggrieved.
  • Nghe tin đó, bà cụ tưởng chết vì uất ức. (Upon hearing that news, the old lady was so aggrieved she thought she would die.)

verb

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