đổ nát
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Definition
- Adjective:
- In a state of ruin, collapsed, or fallen apart: Describes something (typically a building, structure, or area) that has been severely damaged, destroyed, or has crumbled, often due to age, disaster, or war.
- Dilapidated, in ruins: Indicates a condition of complete or near-complete destruction and decay.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Sau trận động đất, thành phố bị đổ nát hoàn toàn. (After the earthquake, the city was completely in ruins.)
- Ngôi đền cổ giờ chỉ còn là một đống đổ nát. (The ancient temple is now just a pile of rubble.)
- Khu nhà máy bỏ hoang trông rất đổ nát. (The abandoned factory looks very dilapidated.)
Advanced Usage
- "cảnh đổ nát": a scene of ruin/devastation.
- Phóng viên ghi lại cảnh đổ nát sau vụ đánh bom. (The reporter recorded the scene of devastation after the bombing.)
- "tan hoang đổ nát": utterly ruined and devastated (emphasizes complete destruction).
- Chiến tranh đã để lại những ngôi làng tan hoang đổ nát. (The war left villages utterly ruined and devastated.)
Variants and Related Words
- Sụp đổ (verb): to collapse, to fall down. Focuses more on the action of collapsing.
- Tòa nhà đã sụp đổ. (The building collapsed.)
- Hoang tàn (adjective): desolate, ruined. Often describes a ruined and deserted state.
- Pháo đài hoang tàn. (A desolate fortress.)
- Đổ vỡ (verb/adjective): to break/shatter; broken. More general, can apply to objects, plans, or relationships.
- Chiếc ly bị đổ vỡ. (The glass was broken.)
Synonyms
- Tan hoang: devastated, laid waste.
- Tiêu điều: desolate, bleak (often for landscapes or economies).
- Nát vụn: smashed to pieces, crumbled.
Related Phrases
- Phế tích: ruins, relics (often historical or archaeological).
- phế tích của một nền văn minh cổ (the ruins of an ancient civilization)
- Bình địa: razed to the ground.
- bom đạn biến khu phố thành bình địa (bombs turned the neighborhood into razed ground)
- Fall to pieces, be in ruin, collapse