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tepoloa.

Headword: 
tepoloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to defeat people in war (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tepoloa in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

tepoloa = to conquer people
D. K. Jordan, "Nahuatl Grammar Notes," p. 13; https://pages.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/nahuatl/NahuatlGrammarNotes.pdf

themes: 
War, Conflict
See also: 
poloa.
polihui.
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