sin
US: /ˈsɪn/
English Vietnamese dictionary
sin /sin/
- danh từ
- tội lỗi, tội ác; sự phạm (luân thường đạo lý, thẩm mỹ...)
- it is no sin for a man to labour in his vocation
- nghề gì cũng vinh quang
- like sin
- (từ lóng) kịch liệt, mãnh liệt
- động từ
- phạm tội, mắc tội; gây tội
- phạm đến, phạm vào
- to be more sinned against than sinning
- đáng thương hơn là đáng trách
- to sin one's mercies
- được phúc mà bạc bẽo vô ơn
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb, abbreviation
+ noun
1 [C] an offence against God or against a religious or moral law: to commit a sin + Confess your sins to God and he will forgive you. + The Bible says that stealing is a sin.
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2 [U] the act of breaking a religious or moral law: a life of sin
3 [C, usually sing.] (informal) an action that people strongly disapprove of: It's a sin to waste taxpayers' money like that.
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Idioms: be / do sth for your sins (spoken humorous, especially BrE) used to say that sth that sb does is like a punishment: She works with us in Accounts, for her sins!
(as) miserable / ugly as sin (spoken) used to emphasize that sb is very unhappy or ugly
more at MULTITUDE, LIVE
+ verb (-nn-) [V] to break a religious or moral law: Forgive me, Lord, for I have sinned. + He was more sinned against than sinning (= although he did wrong, other people treated him even worse).
+ abbreviation (mathematics) SINE
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 trespass, transgression, offence, wrong, impiety, misdeed, profanation, desecration, iniquity, evil, devilry, sacrilege, crime, infraction, misdeed, dereliction, infringement, violation, misdemeanour, fault, foible, peccadillo:
How many sins have been committed in the name of righteousness! It's a sin to tell a lie. The seven deadly sins are anger, covetousness, envy, gluttony, lust, pride, and sloth.
2 wickedness, sinfulness, vice, corruption, ungodliness, badness, evil, wrongfulness, iniquity, iniquitousness, immorality, depravity, impiety, irreverence, impiousness, sacrilege:
His brother Edmund was conceived in sin, and sin ruled his entire life.
v.
3 transgress, offend, fall (from grace), lapse, go wrong, stray, go astray, err, Biblical or archaic trespass:
Strictly speaking, we can sin only against God.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
cardinal, deadly, mortal | unforgivable | venial | besetting
The besetting sin of 18th-century urban Britain was drunkenness.
| original
the Christian doctrine of original sin
VERB + SIN
commit | confess
They had confessed their sins and done their penance.
| forgive (sb their)
PREP.
~ against
Sin against others is seen as a sin against God.
Concise English dictionary
sinned|sinning|sinssɪn
noun
+estrangement from god
+an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will
+ratio of the opposite side to the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle
+(Akkadian) god of the moon; counterpart of Sumerian Nanna
+the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet
+violent and excited activity
verb
+commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law
+commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake
