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spreading

7 Kiribati words

• rarakanako
  • Bingham to increase in size by spreading.
• tira
  • Bingham yielding to pressure, spreading out, malleable.
• taerake
  • Sabatier e taerake marana: his baldness is spreading upwards.
• ribaba
  • Sabatier to go on increasing, getting worse, spreading (wind, heat, sickness).
• tababa
  • Sabatier wide spreading branches, leaves <leaf> (of trees, plants), fuzzy (hair).
• eba
  • Sabatier eb'aeb'a, eb'anako: to raise up, spread out or outstretched in curve form, protracting, spreading, stretching out.
• tabakurakura
  • Sabatier bushy, puffed, overflowing, spreading out on all sides as person bending under a burden, burdened with a crowd of brats, overloaded with cumbrous gear, encumbered.