"Batbat" is a word in ILOKANO, HILIGAYNON, CEBUANO
v. /MANG-:-EN/ to beat: said of cotton and other fibers; to scutch. Batbatam dayta kapas. Beat that kapok.
bátbat - To foliate, beat into a leaf or thin
foil. Binátbat nga buláwan. Gold leaf. (cf.
ságyad, panágyad).
bátbat - To explain, show, expose,
interpret, translate. (cf. památbat, pátpat;
sáyod, waní, huád, sáysay).
batbat v {2} [A; a] follow, traverse along the edges or outskirts.
Mibatbat sila sa lapad nga humayan, They walked around edges of the wide rice field.
Batbáta ning dalána ug muabut ka sa tubud, Follow this footpath, and you will reach the spring.
batbat v [A; c1] relate or describe an event in detail.
Batbáta (ibatbat) sa hukmánan ang ímung nasaksihan, Explain to the court what you saw.
And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.
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