to rid oneself entirely of something (See Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
pehpetzoā
IPAspelling:
pehpetsoɑː
Frances Karttunen:
PEHPETZOĀ vt to rid oneself entirely of something / lo quita todo (T) [(3)Tp.196]. As a reduplicated form of PETZOĀ 'to polish something, to make something shine/ this seems to arrive at its meaning in T by way of the sense of losing one's hair or shaving one's head and hence having a shiny bald pate. See PETZOĀ, PEHPETZTIC.
PEHPETZILHUIĀ applic. PEHPETZOĀ.
PEHPETZŌLŌ nonact. PEHPETZOĀ. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 191.