"jialat" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Hokkien 食力 (chia̍h-la̍t, “to be exhausting”), with spelling influenced by Mandarin Pinyin.",
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      "form": "more jialat",
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          "ref": "1997 October 19, Thye Hoon Lin, “Singapore Ties to Heroin Traffickers: News Release”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet):",
          "text": "wah lao...... jialat ahhhh you.",
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          "ref": "2015 December 17, Kelly Tay Soon Weilun, “The Singapore economy, colloquially speaking”, in Business Times, →OCLC:",
          "text": "None of the economists polled expect the economy to contract - be it a technical recession or a real recession - and hit the alamak and jialat ranges.",
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        "Sapping of one’s strength; tiresome"
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          "text": "According to his doctors, every minute he had remained unconscious would have added to his life being in danger. \"If it were 10 minutes... jialat (terrible)!\" he said.",
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        "Terrible; disastrous"
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        "(by extension) Terrible; disastrous"
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      "ipa": "/ˌt͡sjɑːˈlɐt/",
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          "text": "wah lao...... jialat ahhhh you.",
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          "text": "None of the economists polled expect the economy to contract - be it a technical recession or a real recession - and hit the alamak and jialat ranges.",
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          "text": "According to his doctors, every minute he had remained unconscious would have added to his life being in danger. \"If it were 10 minutes... jialat (terrible)!\" he said.",
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        "Terrible; disastrous"
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      "ipa": "/ˌt͡sjɑːˈlɐt/",
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