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lose; to misimprove; to misuse; to 

 muddle; to mutilate; to overthrow; to 

 palsy; to pervert; to profane; to raze; 

 to ravage; to remove; to ruin; to slur; 

 to trespass; to undo; to unmake; to 

 vitiate; to vilify; to violate; to waste; 

 i/< '/:/,<i i it, to destroy himself; to abuse 

 himself, etc.; pisaokpani, v. t., to dis- 

 figure; itimokpani, to destroy for each 

 other; imaiokpani, v. t., to foil; okpaiy- 

 iiii i, pro. form. 



okpani, n., a spoiler; a destroyer; a 

 hurter; aravager; aruiner; aperverter; 

 a profaner; a violator; ilokpani, a self- 

 destroyer; aiokpani, Matt. 6:19, 20. 



okpanichi, v. t., to cause ruin, destruc- 

 tion; to make of none effect; to cumber 

 or mar, Matt. 15: 6; aiokpaninchi, to 

 cumber, Luke 13: 7. 



okpanit tali, v. t., to consume; to de- 

 stroy utterly; to raze. 



okpata, okpatha, n., the shoulder- 

 blade; the blade bone of man and beast. 



okpata foni, n., the shoulder-blade. 



okpeli, v. t., to skim off cream, froth, 

 etc. ; okpiha, pp. 



okpicheli, v. a. L, to grow or spring up, 

 as grass and weeds in the spring; to rise 

 to the brim, like water. 



okpichelichi, okpichechi, v. a. i., to 

 grow or spring up, as grass. 



okpiyanli, n., a word of reproach, a dis- 

 gusting epithet. 



okpolusbi, n., dark; dusk; twilight; ves- 

 pers, 2 Kings 7: 5. 



okpolusbichi, v. t., to render it dark. 



okpolo, v. n., to be in a passion; to be 

 dissatisfied, as imokpolo, he is dissat- 

 isfied or he is angry. 



okpulo,a. ,bad, Matt. 13: 48; vile; wrong; 

 wicked; absurd; arrant; base; baleful; 

 angry, Luke 4: 28; dirty; corrupt; de- 

 generate; unclean, Matt. 12: 43; delete- 

 rious; deplorable; difficult; dire; dire- 

 ful; dismal; evil; fatal; faulty; fear- 

 ful; fell; felonious; fiendish; flagi- 

 tious; flagrant; foul; gross; harsh; hei- 

 nous; horrible; horrid; hurtful; ill; 

 immoral; impetuous; impure; inclem- 

 ent; indecent; indirect; injurious; 

 licentious; monstrous; nasty; naughty; 

 noisome; noxious; obnoxious; obscene; 

 odious; offensive; opprobrious; outra- 

 geous; pernicious; preposterous; pro- 



fane; rough; ruinous; sanguinary; sav- 

 age; sinful; sinister; sordid; terrible; 

 terrific; ugly; vicious; vulgar; waste; 

 wrong; imokpulo, displeased with him; 

 harmed; hurt; itimokpulo, displeased 

 with each other. 



okpulo, v. n., to be bad, or vile; okpunlo, 

 nasal form; okpoyulo, pro. form. 



okpulo, v. a. i., to corrupt; to spoil; to 

 damage; to fall; to perish, Matt. 5: 30. 



okpulo, n., evil, Matt. 5: 11; badness; 

 vileness; asperity; damage; destruction; 

 depravity; devastation; an enormity; 

 a fall; a hazard; harm; havoc; a hurt; 

 impurity; meanness; an overthrow; 

 pollution; rascality; ruin; sinfulness; 

 turpitude; wickedness; wrong; ikok- 

 polo, ikokpulo, a., unharmed; un- 

 injured; unspoiled; unviolated; un- 

 tainted. 



okpulo, pp., ruined; destroyed; abol- 

 ished; spoiled; spoilt; consumed; con- 

 taminated; corrupted; damaged; dam- 

 nified; defaced; defiled; depraved; 

 depredated; devastated; exterminated; 

 extinguished; harmed; infected; in- 

 jured; lost; misshapen; muddled; mu- 

 tilated; perverted; polluted; razed; 

 ravaged; undone; vitiated; violated; 

 wasted; imokpulo, harmed. 



okpulo, adv., badly; overmuch; rascally; 

 vilely; sabanna okpulo; umba okpulo. 



okpulo fehna, a., abominable; atrocious; 

 nefarious; worse. 



okpulo i n shaht tali, a., worst. 



okpulo isht i n shat ia, a., worse; ikok- 

 pulo, a., inoffensive; unharmed. 



okpulo keyu, a., incorrupt. 



okpulochi, v. t., 1 Sam. 1: 6, to make her 

 fret; to provoke; okpulohonchi, 1 Sam. 

 1: 7. 



okpuloka, n., fall; ruin, Matt. 7: 27. 



okpulosali, a., very inferior. 



okpulot, adv., badly. 



okpulot ia, okpulot ishtia, v. a. i., to 

 degenerate. 



okpulot iktaho, a., unconsumed. 



okpulot taha, pp., razed; utterly de- 

 stroyed. 



okpulot taha, a., crazy; lost, Matt. 18:11; 

 Luke 19: 10; perished; Matt. 18: 14. 



oksuk, uksak (q. v. ), n., a hickory nut. 



oksakohchi, n., the high bush whortle- 

 berry. 





