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topochoa.

Headword: 
topochoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to bend, to double over; to bend something so that it cannot be straightened (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tohpochoā
IPAspelling: 
tohpotʃoɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TOHPOCHOĀ vrefl.vt to bend, to double over; to bend something so that it cannot be straightened / se encoge, se agacha (forzosamente) (T), lo encorva y no se puede enderezarse (T) [(6)Tp.171,212].

TOHPOCHILHUIĀ applic. TOHPOCHOĀ.

TOHPOCHŌLŌ nonact. TOHPOCHOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 243.