vét
Definition
- Verb:
- To dredge: To remove mud, sand, or other material from the bottom of a river, harbor, or other body of water.
- To scrape (clean/out): To remove the last remaining contents of a container by scraping its bottom or sides.
- To gather/collect everything; to clean out: To take or collect absolutely everything that remains, leaving nothing behind.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Người ta đang vét bùn ở con kênh. (They are dredging mud from the canal.)
- Cô ấy vét sạch mứt trong lọ. (She scraped out all the jam in the jar.)
- Hắn vét sạch tiền trong tài khoản. (He cleaned out all the money in the account.)
Advanced Usage
"vét sạch": To clean out completely; to exhaust a supply.
- Lũ trẻ vét sạch kẹo trong bát. (The children cleaned out all the candy in the bowl.)
"thi vét" (slang in education): A final, additional exam session for those who previously failed.
- Anh ấy đang ôn tập cho kỳ thi vét. (He is studying for the make-up exam.)
Variants and Related Words
Vét cạn (v): To drain dry; to exhaust a resource completely.
- Công ty đó vét cạn nguồn tài nguyên. (That company exhausted the natural resource.)
Tàu vét (n): A dredger (ship).
- Tàu vét đang làm việc tại cảng. (The dredger is working at the port.)
Synonyms
- Dredge: To clean or deepen with a dredge.
- Scrape: To remove something by a scraping action.
- Clean out: To empty something completely.
Related Idioms
Vét túi: To empty one's pockets (of money); to spend or give all the money one has.
- Tôi phải vét túi để mua chiếc vé đó. (I had to empty my pockets to buy that ticket.)
Vét của chạy lấy người: An idiom meaning to abandon all possessions to save oneself; to flee empty-handed.
- Trong hỏa hoạn, nhiều người chỉ biết vét của chạy lấy người. (During the fire, many people could only flee to save themselves, leaving everything behind.)
verb
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to dredge to scrape
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