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to make someone ill

pestilence, sickness, disease; an epidemic (especially with the intensifier, huey) (see Molina, Karttunen, and Lockhart); recent scientific studies of human remains from the sixteenth century are suggesting salmonella was responsible for the cocoliztli epidemics of ca. 1545 and 1576 (see the work of Johannes Krause of the Max Planck Institute and a publication by Ewen Calloway)

1) quarrel, dispute, anger, hurt (see Molina and Karttunen); pain, misery (see Bierhorst)
2) twisted bread or maize dough (see attestations)
3) divine force of fire (see attestations)

something thin and dry (see Molina)

anger and quarreling (see Molina); conflict (see Bierhorst, attestations)

to go twisting and turning; or, for a turkey male to crow or squawk (see Molina)

something crispy (see Molina)

to make someone thin (see Molina)

thinness combined with dryness (see Molina; the synonym, as he gives it elsewhere, is actually cicicuiliuiztli, which we have rendered as cicicuilihuiztli)