"Bakatya" is a word in CEBUANO
bakatya v [A; a1] {1} subject s.
o.
to hard, severe treatment.
Kusug mubakatyag súgù nang agalúna, That master drives (his servants) to work very hard.
Gibakatya siyag bukbuk sa mga buguy, He was severely mauled by the roughnecks.
{2} discipline s.
o.
wild, unruly.
Mabuútan ang irù ug dúnay makabakatya íni, A dog will become meek if s.
o.
disciplines it.
I went back every evening, after work, for nearly a year. I learned the meaning of the cud of a leaf and the glisten of wet pebbles, and the special significance of curves and angles. A great deal of the writing was unwritten. Plot three dots on a graph and join them; you now have a curve with certain characteristics. Extend that curve while maintaining the characteristics, and it has meaning, up where no dots were plotted.In just this way I learned to extend the curve of a grass-blade and of a protruding root, of the bent edges of wetness on a drying headstone. I quit smoking so I could sharpen my sense of smell, because the scent of earth after a rain has a clarifying effect on graveyard reading, as if the page were made whiter and the ink darker. I began to listen to the wind, and to the voices of birds and small animals, insects and people; because to the educated ear, every sound is filtered through the story written on graves, and becomes a part of it.("The Graveyard Reader")
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