to become flat, to collapse, to flatten, press, crush something (See Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
patlachoā
IPAspelling:
pɑtɬɑtʃoɑː
Frances Karttunen:
PATLACHOĀ vrefl, vt to become flat, to collapse, to flatten, press, crush something / se aplasta (T); lo aplasta, lo prensa (T) This is abundantly attested but only in T, Z, and X.
PATLACHILHUIĀ applic. PATLACHOĀ.
PATLACHŌLŌ nonact. PATLACHOĀ. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 189.