núng

Vietnamese

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Verb

núng • ()

  1. (obsolete) going flat; concave; indented; sunk
    • 1920, Lu Xun, Tomorrow (明天), Vietnamese translation by Phan Khôi in Tuyển tập tiểu thuyết Lỗ Tấn II (1957), English translation from Marxists Internet Archive (2005).
      Bây giờ thì đã sáng rồi ; ánh sáng trời xóa mất ánh sáng đèn, thấy rõ hai cánh mũi của thằng Báu cứ phồng ra núng vào theo hơi thở.
      But now at last it was bright. Clear daylight swallowed up the lamplight. Pao-erh's nostrils quivered as he gasped for breath.
  2. (by extension, of situation or mental state, now chiefly in compounds) yielding; conceding

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