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tlapopoloa.

Headword: 
tlapopoloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to destroy something; or, to erase something

Alonso de Molina: 

popoloa. nitla. (pret. onitlapopolo.) desperdiciar o destruyr algo, o hazer costa, borrar alguna cosa, o escurecer la claridad grande ala pequeña.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 83v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

themes: 
War, Conflict