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Bete

adjectiveReviewedpage 25

Definitions

1
Beaten; punished; struck.
PT Espancado; castigado; batido.·FR Battu; châtié; frappé.

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Kange — Tied; bound. Caught; imprisoned.
Kase — Tied; lassoed; bound
Kúbeta — To beat; to hit.
Kute — Tied; bound; connected.
Ungúlu — Filthiness; squalor.
Úhuku — Brutishness; roughness.
Nvíndu — Cardina; churro.
Kubuébua — To loosen; to empty.
Minyange-minyange — Crumbled; shattered; sliced up. Reduced to pieces.
Kuburisa — To cause to break, to smash, to split.

Source · Assis Júnior (1940s), page 25 (right)

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