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escape

10 Kiribati words

• birinako
  • Sabatier to run away, to escape.
• iwai
  • Sabatier to struggle, to try to escape.
• kaobairake
  • Bingham to escape away as a squid from its hole.
• tiribaia
  • Bingham to escape a person by breaking his hold.
• tiribai
  • Bingham to try to escape by breaking the hold of another.
• kom
  • Sabatier komkom, takomkom: to cease abruptly, to hide, to escape, to be missing, to be short.
• ranene
  • Sabatier to pass through (obstacles, meshes), to infiltrate (rain), to intrude, to escape, to sneak in.
• taeanibai
  • Sabatier taeanibaia: to get liberty,... freedom, to escape from hands (bai),... domination, from grasp, to shake off yoke.
• tiba
  • Sabatier titiba, tiba nako: to step out of place, to escape, to slip, to give way, to get loose (mechanism), to miss by passing.
• kateibaobao
  • Sabatier to make platforms, shelter, supports. to make rafts, temporary embarkations (to escape in war-time formerly), to use these rafts to make escape, to ask and obtain mercy (in war). (that is to say, escape the same as if one had escaped on a raft).