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Mẹ dùng tro để ủ bếp than giữ ấm.

Definition

1. Verb:

   • To cover or wrap to retain warmth: To place a covering over something, especially food, to keep it warm.
   • To ferment or cure: To store something under specific conditions (e.g., warmth, darkness) to allow a process like fermentation, ripening, or decomposition to occur.
   • To anneal (metallurgy): To heat metal or an alloy and then cool it slowly to increase its ductility and reduce internal stress.
   • To be sullen or gloomy (of facial expression): To have a sad, downcast, or melancholic appearance.

2. Adjective:

   • Sullen; gloomy; drooping: Describing a state of being wilted (for plants) or appearing sad and dejected (for a person's demeanor).

Usage Examples

• Verb:

  • Mẹ ủ nồi cơm để giữ ấm. (Mother covered the rice pot to keep it warm.)
  • Người ta ủ đậu nành để làm tương. (People ferment soybeans to make soybean paste.)
  • Thép cần được ủ để dễ gia công hơn. (Steel needs to be annealed to be more workable.)
  • Cô ấy ngồi ủ rũ một mình. (She sat alone, looking sullen.)

• Adjective:

  • Những bông hoa này đã ủ vì thiếu nước. (These flowers have wilted due to lack of water.)
  • Anh ấy có vẻ mặt ủ mày chau. (He has a gloomy and frowning face.)

Advanced Usage

• "Ủ bệnh": To incubate an illness.

  • Cậu bé đang ủ bệnh sốt rét. (The boy is incubating malaria.)

• "Ủ rượu": To brew or ferment alcohol.

  • Ông ấy có bí quyết ủ rượu nếp rất ngon. (He has a secret for fermenting very delicious glutinous rice wine.)

Variants and Related Words

• Ủ ấm (v): To keep warm by covering.

  • Hãy ủ ấm cho em bé. (Please keep the baby warm by wrapping.)

• Ủ héo (v/adj): To wilt; to become wilted.

  • Rau để lâu ngoài nắng sẽ bị ủ héo. (Vegetables left in the sun will wilt.)

Synonyms

• Cover: To place something over.
• Ferment: To undergo fermentation.
• Inculbate: To develop an infection slowly.
• Droop/Wilt: To hang down limply (for plants).
• Sullen: Bad-tempered and gloomy.

Related Idioms

• Mặt ủ mày chau: To have a gloomy and worried countenance; to look sullen and frowning.

  • Nghe tin buồn, anh ấy mặt ủ mày chau cả ngày. (Hearing the sad news, he looked sullen and frowning all day.)

• Ủ ê trong lòng: To be deeply saddened or troubled in one's heart.

  • Sự thất bại khiến cô ấy ủ ê trong lòng. (The failure left her deeply saddened.)

Học thuật

verb

1. to keep (with.)

adj

1. sullen, gloomy