đục lầm
Definition
- Verb:
- To become turbid with mud: The primary meaning of "đục lầm" describes water or a liquid becoming cloudy, murky, or opaque due to the disturbance and mixing of mud or sediment.
- To be muddied: It can describe a substance that has been made impure or unclear by the introduction of mud.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Nước suối đục lầm sau cơn mưa lớn. (The stream water became turbid with mud after the heavy rain.)
- Ao cá bị đục lầm vì đàn trâu xuống tắm. (The fish pond was muddied because the herd of buffalo went down to bathe.)
Advanced Usage
- The term is primarily used in descriptive contexts related to natural bodies of water and their condition. It emphasizes the process or state of clarity being lost due to mud.
Variants and Related Words
Đục (adj/verb): murky, turbid; to become cloudy or to chisel.
- Nước đục. (Murky water.)
Lầm (noun): mud, mire.
- Lội qua vũng lầm. (To wade through a mud puddle.)
Synonyms
- To become muddy: to be filled or covered with mud.
- To be roiled: (of water) made turbid by stirring up sediment.
- To cloud: to become opaque or unclear.
Notes on Usage
- "Đục lầm" is a specific and somewhat literary or descriptive compound verb. It is not commonly used in everyday casual speech. More common ways to express similar ideas might use "đục ngầu" (murky) or "vẩn đục" (to become turbid).
- It almost exclusively describes the physical state of liquids, particularly water, and does not have common metaphorical uses.