uất ức
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Definition
- 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.)