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giãy

Pronunciation Northern /zaʔaj˧˥/ Central /jaj˧˩˨/ Southern /jaj˨˩˦/
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squirm
Verb
squirm
3 senses
Meaning
3 senses

Verb

Sense 1 Verb
squirm Core ActionsTheme

To move or twist the body with sudden, violent force, often as a reaction to sharp pain.

vi Con cá đang giãy mạnh trên mặt đất.

en The fish is squirming strongly on the ground.

Sense 2 Verb
struggle

To make a strong effort to resist or refuse to accept a difficult or unwanted situation.

vi Anh ấy đang cố gắng giãy ra khỏi những rắc rối hiện tại.

en He is trying to struggle out of his current troubles.

Adjective

Sense 3 Adjective
painful

Describing a sensation that causes a person to instinctively pull back or shrink away due to pain.

vi Vết thương hở tạo ra một cảm giác đau giãy.

en The open wound creates a painful sensation.

Parts
𨃉
Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
𨃉
Candidates by syllable
giãy 𨃉
Bold marks a representative candidate assembled from per-syllable character mappings. Parentheses show other candidates for the same syllable. It is not necessarily a source-aligned spelling for the whole word.
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