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tlalpoloa.

Headword: 
tlalpoloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to destroy or carry out a conquest against lands and peoples
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 237.

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːlpoloɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlalpoloa. ni. (pret. onitlalpolo.) destruir, o conquistar tierras y gentes.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 124v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

ni. Class 3: ōnitlālpoloh. tlālli, poloa.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

tlalpolloque = conquistaron la tierra (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 145.

themes: 
Imperialism (Indigenous)
War, Conflict