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gbalù

Active verb

Ndebe script

-

Meanings

  1. foul; defile; be defiled, polluted (as when water containing sediment, standing in a jar, is stirred, or when the water of the stream is polluted by the activities of fish)

    Active verb
  2. pollute by mixing

    Active verb

Dialect & variants

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Examples

Mmiri dị n'ite ahụ gbalụ, ọ dịghị mma.

— The water in that pot is fouled, it is not good.

Gịnị gbalu mmiri ọṅụṅụ anyị?

— What fouled our drinking water?

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