Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Fast, heavy, and intense: Describes something that happens or is done in a very rapid, dense, and forceful manner, often in large quantities. It emphasizes both speed and volume.
   • Torrential, pouring: Often used to describe rain falling heavily and continuously.
   • Unrestrained, vehement: Used to describe verbal attacks or criticism that are harsh, rapid, and delivered without pause.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Trời đổ mưa xối xả. (The rain is pouring down torrentially.)
  • Anh ta bị chỉ trích xối xả trên báo chí. (He was vehemently criticized in the press.)
  • Khẩu súng máy bắn ra những loạt đạn xối xả. (The machine gun fired intense, rapid bursts of bullets.)

Advanced Usage

• "ăn tiêu xối xả": to spend money lavishly and without restraint.
  • Sau khi trúng số, anh ta ăn tiêu xối xả. (After winning the lottery, he spent money lavishly.)
• "mắng/chửi xối xả": to scold or curse someone vehemently and without stopping.
  • Bà chủ mắng xối xả nhân viên vì lỗi sai đó. (The boss gave the employee a vehement scolding for that mistake.)

Variants and Related Words

• Xối (verb): to pour (a liquid) heavily and directly. Often used in compound forms.
  • Xối nước (to pour water).
• Xả (verb): to release, to let out, to vent. Often implies a forceful or complete release.
  • Xả hơi (to relax, to let off steam).
  • Xả lũ (to release floodwaters from a dam).

Synonyms

• Dữ dội: fierce, violent (often for storms or conflicts).
• Ào ạt: rushing, pouring, surging (emphasizes a strong, oncoming flow).
• Trút (as in ): to pour down (like tipping out water).

Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs / Collocations)

• Đổ xối xả: to pour down torrentially (used almost exclusively for rain).
  • Cơn mưa đổ xối xả suốt một tiếng đồng hồ. (The rain poured down torrentially for a full hour.)
• Nói xối xả: to speak in a rapid, relentless, and often aggressive stream.
  • Cô ấy nói xối xả không cho ai cắt lời. (She spoke in a rapid, relentless stream, not letting anyone interrupt.)

Related Idioms

• (Mưa) như trút nước: (Rain) like tipping out water. A common idiom synonymous with .
  • Ngoài trời mưa như trút nước. (It's raining cats and dogs outside.)

adj

1. fast and thick