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matiratira

Bingham

mætiræ/tira

a. thoroughly cooked, or cooked soft as a pan nut or babai.

Sabatier

matiratira

sup. superlative of tira.
red. matiratira.
a. completely squashed, crushed, flattened, reduced to pulp.
vc. ka-matira, kamatiratira: to crush, to flatten, to squash.

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