Definition

1. Verb:
   • To exhaust completely: To use up or deplete a resource, supply, or energy source until nothing remains.
   • To drain utterly: To remove all contents, often in a thorough or systematic manner, leaving something empty.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Họ đã vét kiệt nguồn nước ngầm. (They have completely exhausted the groundwater source.)
  • Chiến dịch quyên góp vét kiệt số tiền ủng hộ. (The fundraising campaign drained the donation funds utterly.)
  • Công ty gần như vét kiệt ý tưởng mới. (The company has almost exhausted its supply of new ideas.)

Advanced Usage

• Mathematical/Logical Method: Refers to the method of exhaustion, a classical technique used to determine the area of a shape by inscribing within it a sequence of polygons whose areas converge to the area of the containing shape.
  • Phương pháp vét kiệt được Archimedes sử dụng. (The method of exhaustion was used by Archimedes.)

Variants and Related Words

• Vét sạch (v): To clean out, to strip bare. Often used interchangeably in everyday contexts.

  • Lũ trẻ vét sạch kẹo trong lọ. (The children cleaned out all the candy in the jar.)

• Cạn kiệt (adj): Depleted, exhausted. Describes the state of being completely used up.

  • Tài nguyên đang ở tình trạng cạn kiệt. (The resources are in a depleted state.)

Synonyms

• Exhaust: To use up completely.
• Drain: To remove liquid or resources until empty.
• Deplete: To reduce the supply or quantity of something significantly.

Related Idioms

• Vét túi: To clean out one's pockets (to spend all of one's money).

  • Đi chơi cả ngày khiến tôi vét túi. (Going out all day cleaned out my pockets.)

• Vét đến đồng xu cuối cùng: To scrape up the last coin (to take absolutely everything).

  • Hắn vét đến đồng xu cuối cùng của nạn nhân. (He scraped up the last coin from the victim.)