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nempolihui.

Headword: 
nempolihui.
Principal English Translation: 

to spoil, get stale, or be ruined (see Karttunen and Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
nempoliui
IPAspelling: 
neːmpoliwi
Alonso de Molina: 

nempoliui. (pret. onempoliuh.) desperdiciarse algo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 67v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

NĒMPOLIHU(I) to spoil, to get stale, to be ruined / desperdiciarse algo (M), se echa a perder, se pierde (T) [(3)Tp.167]. See NĒN, POLIHU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 166.