bịt

Thân thiện

Một người thợ dùng miếng vải để bịt miệng hũ.

Definition

1. Verb:
   • To stop up, to plug, to seal: The primary meaning of "bịt" is to physically close, cover, or block an opening, hole, or gap to prevent passage or leakage.
   • To suppress, to gag, to muzzle: In a figurative sense, "bịt" means to prevent information, news, or public opinion from being revealed or expressed; to cover something up.
   • To rim, to band, to cap: To reinforce, decorate, or cover the edge, tip, or surface of an object with another material, often metal.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Lấy vải bịt miệng hũ. (Use cloth to stop up the jar's mouth.)
  • Anh ta cố gắng bịt dư luận. (He tried to muzzle public opinion.)
  • Chiếc gậy được bịt vàng ở đầu. (The walking stick is capped with gold at the tip.)

Advanced Usage

• "bịt miệng": to gag someone (literally or figuratively), to silence.

  • Họ tìm cách bịt miệng nhân chứng. (They sought ways to gag the witness.)

• "bịt mắt": to blindfold.

  • Bọn cướp bịt mắt nạn nhân. (The robbers blindfolded the victim.)

Variants and Related Words

• Bịt kín (v): to seal tightly, to stop up completely.

  • Bịt kín các khe hở. (Seal all the gaps tightly.)

• Bịt tai (v): to cover one's ears; (figuratively) to turn a deaf ear.

  • Cô ấy bịt tai lại vì tiếng ồn. (She covered her ears because of the noise.)

Synonyms

• Plug, Stopper: to close an opening.
• Suppress, Conceal: to hide information.
• Rim, Reinforce: to edge or tip with material.

Related Idioms

• Bịt mắt bắt chim: to act blindly or based on guesswork (literally: to blindfold and catch birds).

  • Làm thế chẳng khác nào bịt mắt bắt chim. (Doing that is no different from acting blindly.)

• Bịt miệng thế gian: an impossible task of silencing everyone (literally: to gag the world).

  • Bịt miệng thế gian là điều không thể. (It is impossible to gag the world.)

Học thuật

verb

1. To stop
   • lấy vải bịt miệng hũ
     to stop a pot's neck with bits of cloth
   • bịt tai trước những lời nói xấu
     to stop one's ears to backbiting, to turn a deaf ear to backbiting
   • lấy thân mình bịt lỗ châu mai
     to stop a loop-hole with one's body
   • bịt sao được miệng thiên hạ
     how can one gag people's mouths, how can one prevent tongues from wagging
   • bịt hết đầu mối
     to suppress all the clues
   • tìm cách bịt dư luận
     to try to gag (muzzle) public opinion
2. To rim, to crown
   • răng bịt vàng