vơi
Definition
Adjective:
- Less full; partially emptied: Describes a container whose contents have decreased from its full capacity, but are not completely empty.
- Subsided; receded: Describes the level of a liquid, such as water in a river or flood, that has gone down.
Verb:
- To decrease; to subside: The act of a liquid level becoming lower.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Chai nước này đã vơi một nửa. (This water bottle is half empty.)
- Sau cơn bão, nước lũ đã vơi đi nhiều. (After the storm, the floodwater has receded a lot.)
- Verb:
- Nước trong hồ đang vơi dần vì hạn hán. (The water in the lake is gradually subsiding due to the drought.)
Advanced Usage
- "vơi vơi" (reduplicated form): Slightly decreased; gently subsiding. This form expresses a lesser degree or a more gradual process.
- Nỗi buồn trong lòng cô ấy mới chỉ vơi vơi. (The sadness in her heart has only slightly eased.)
Variants and Related Words
- Vơi đi (v): to lessen, to diminish (often used for emotions or abstract things).
- Nỗi đau sẽ từ từ vơi đi theo thời gian. (The pain will slowly lessen over time.)
Synonyms
- Decrease (for levels).
- Recede (for water).
- Diminish.
- Lessen.
Related Idioms
- Vơi nỗi buồn: for sadness to lessen or ease.
- Âm nhạc giúp vơi nỗi buồn. (Music helps to ease sadness.)
- Lòng vơi vơi: describes a feeling of slight, lingering emptiness or melancholy.
- Nghe tin ấy, lòng tôi cứ vơi vơi. (Hearing that news, I felt a lingering emptiness.)