chém

verb

• To cut (with a sword..), to guillotine
  • chém đầu: to cut off (someone's) head
  • xử chém: to execute by the guillotine

• To sting, to stick it on
  • chỉ đáng một đồng mà bị chém ba đồng: to be stung for three dong for something worth one dong
  • quán này chém tợn: this inn sticks it on
  • chém to kho mặn: to attach more importance to substance than to form
  • chém tre không dè đầu mặt: to do something with little regard for the feeling of the people concerned