lower
23 Kiribati words
- tuka
- Bingham to lower as a sail.
- Sabatier to lower, let down, to descend.
- nna
- Bingham to lower.
- karinanoa
- Sabatier to lower, to humiliate (fig).
- borata
- Sabatier to level, to lower, to make even or flat.
- Sabatier to spoil a tune by cacophony, to lower the tone of...
- areinano
- Bingham lower set of teeth.
- moantia
- Bingham lower and front part of the abdomen.
- inainano
- Bingham lower sprit or brace of a canoe sail.
- kakea
- Sabatier ke: to lessen, to diminish, to lower.
- kanuka
- Sabatier to make ashamed, to humiliate, to lower.
- bo bebete
- Sabatier kabobebetea: to lower, to put down the price.
- rio
- Sabatier lower or west side, used only in compound words.
- inao
- Bingham upper or lower edge of a plank ready for a canoe.
- taotebe
- Sabatier kataobebe, katao te uea: to lower, to submerge nets.
- kanatoki
- Sabatier to diminish, to lower, to cease, to slow down to cessation.
- kakenakoa
- Sabatier to push, to push away, to push back, to push down, to diminish, to lower.
- tikua
- Sabatier titikua: to lower, to take down (flag, sail), to leave, to put in place.
- karuo
- Sabatier karuoa, karuoruoa: idem., to lower, to let down, to put down, to deposit.
- bobaraki
- Sabatier to stoop, to bow, to bend the head, to lower the body, to be prostrate, to lie face downwards.
- katuka
- Sabatier irreg. to lower, to take down, to leave behind, not to take with one. (for ex. sail, flag, any object).
- mwiniba
- Sabatier ka-mwinibaea: to treat as..., as the last and least, as nothing, to lower, to disparage, to debase, to despise.
- ruo
- Sabatier ka-ruoa, karuoruoa, kaka...: to lower, to bring down, to make come down, to lay aside, to remove from office, to beat at game, to eliminate.
- karako
- Sabatier karakoa, karakoaea, kakarakoaea: to decrease, to lessen, to make thinner, to reduce, to diminish, to curtail, to cut down, to lower, to shorten.
- taona
- Sabatier tataona (sometimes), taotaona (freq.). to put weight on, to lean on, to press on, to trample on, to compress, to press down, to apply weight on, to crush, to overwhelm, to lower, to smother, to curb, to hold by pressure, by weight, to submit, to subdue, to overcome, to apply pressure on.