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xicahui.

Headword: 
xicahui.
Principal English Translation: 

for something to get worse (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
xīcahui
IPAspelling: 
ʃiːkɑwi
Frances Karttunen: 

XĪCAHU(I) for something to get worse / se empeora (Z) [(2)Zp.49,228]. See XĪCOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 323.