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"(of medicine or pills) swallow, consume"
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Download raw JSONL data for mwa meaning in Chichewa (1.9kB)
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"path": [
"mwa"
],
"section": "Chichewa",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "mwa",
"trace": ""
}
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