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nyụ

Active verb

Ndebe script

-

Meanings

  1. pass wind, fart, ‘gas’

    Active verb
  2. be extinguished; die out; go out (of light, fire)

    Active verb
  3. (fig.) be reactionary

    Active verb

Dialect & variants

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Examples

Nwa ahụ nyụrụ n'ime ụlọ akwụkwọ.

— That child passed wind in the classroom.

Ọ bụ gị nyụrụ? Gaa n'èzí!

— Was it you who passed wind? Go outside!

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