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si ọnwụ

Active verb

Ndebe script

- 

Meanings

  1. persist; be obstinate in desperation or in last desperate effort (by sufferer) before or to prevent death

    Active verb

Dialect & variants

No other variants have been documented for this word.

Examples

Ọ na-asi ọnwụ na-arịọ mmiri.

— He desperately kept asking for water.

Ha na-asi ọnwụ ịpụ n'ụlọ ahụ.

— They desperately persisted to leave that house.

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