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cenchichilia.

Headword: 
cenchichilia.
Principal English Translation: 

(for one’s heart) to grow permanently embittered (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cenchichiliā
IPAspelling: 
sentʃitʃiliɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

CENCHICHILIĀ vt (for one’s heart) to grow permanently embittered / se enoja para siempre (T) [(3)Tp.201]. All attestations are in the construction QUICENCHICHILIĀ ĪYŌLLŌ. CEM, CHICHILIĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 31.