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patlachoa.

Headword: 
patlachoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to become flat, to collapse, to flatten, press, crush something (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
patlachoā
IPAspelling: 
pɑtɬɑtʃoɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

PATLACHOĀ vrefl, vt to become flat, to collapse, to flatten, press, crush something / se aplasta (T); lo aplasta, lo prensa (T) This is abundantly attested but only in T, Z, and X.

PATLACHILHUIĀ applic. PATLACHOĀ.

PATLACHŌLŌ nonact. PATLACHOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 189.