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cuaxaxamatza.

Headword: 
cuaxaxamatza.
Principal English Translation: 

to make someone’s head crumble (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuāxaxamatza
IPAspelling: 
kwɑːʃɑʃɑmɑtsɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

CUĀXAXAMATZ(A) vt to make someone’s head crumble / desmenuzó la cabeza ( C for past tense) [(2)Cf.75r]. See CUĀ(I)-TL, XAXAMATZ(A).

CUĀXAXAMACHILIĀ applic. CUĀXAXAMATZ(A)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 66.