Mapun - limbo

limbo

(For s.o.) to smother; not able to breathe (as when drowning but not always resulting in death).

My cousin drowned (lit. was not able to breathe) in the ocean yesterday.

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-un/pa--un

(For the taste of s.t.) to be lost or smothered by s.t. else; to smother the taste of s.t. by adding a different ingredient; to drown out the sound of s.t.

Limbo lassa koks bong nnaan nu aralen.

The taste of coke is smothered when you add aralen (a bitter malaria medicine) to it.

Limbohun bitsala na ka radju.

Drown out his words with a radio.