"Sampi" is a word in HILIGAYNON
sámpì - To strike, beat, buffet, splash
against (of wind, water, etc.). Ang hángin
nagsámpì sa baláy, ang balúd nagasámpì
sa baybáyon, etc. The wind buffeted the
house, the waves beat against the shore,
etc. (cf. sámpay, sábya).
In our hearts we know that with a different fate, we, too, could be in the ranks of the dispossessed, stripped of our identities and belonging nowhere. The refugee becomes a sinister symbol of what can quickly happen once personhood is denied and people are transformed into disposable units of contemptible impediments to the greed or power-mongering of others.
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v. /MANG-:-EN/ to beat, to strike with a stick, pole, etc. so as to drop down. Aprasem dagita bunga ti …
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Read the complete definitionbákol - (B) To cudgel, cane, thrash, beat, trounce, whip, flog, strike with a rod, whip or the like. Bakóla …
Read the complete definitionv. /MANG-:-AN/ to whip, beat, hit with a stick, a branch of a tree, etc. Saan mo nga balasbasan ta …
Read the complete definitionbálbal - To cane, drub, flog, thrash, give one the stick, cudgel, club, beat with a stick or cudgel. Balbalá …
Read the complete definitionbasás - (Sp. baza) To make or win a trick in card-playing, to win; to beat, overcome, outdo, subdue. Walâ …
Read the complete definitionbatí - (Sp. batir) To beat, stir up, as an egg, milk, dough, land in harrowing, etc. Batihá ang tsokoláte. …
Read the complete definitionbatí-báti - Dim. of batí. To beat or stir slightly, etc. Also: to boil sugar, dissolve sugar in boiling water.
Read the complete definitionbatidór - (Sp. batidor) An egg-beater, an instrument for beating—eggs,—cakedough,—chocolate, etc. (cf. batí).
Read the complete definitionbatil v [A; a] beat or whip eggs, cream, etc. Batila ang sikwáti úsà iságul, Whip up the chocolate before …
Read the complete definitionThe act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game.
Read the complete definitionTo overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.
Read the complete definitionTo give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, …
Read the complete definitionTo scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of …
Read the complete definitionA heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
Read the complete definitionbómbo - (Sp. bombo) A drum: to drum, beat a drum. Bombohá (bagtolá) ang bómbo. Beat the drum. Bombohí ang …
Read the complete definitionbúlbug - To strike, beat against, etc. See púlpug.
Read the complete definitionbúnak - Also: to beat, drub, club, thrash, punish severely. (cf. bákbak, tarítári, etc.).
Read the complete definitionbúnal - To strike, beat, thrash, whip, flog, scourge, flagellate, birch, cane, drub, lash, swinge. Bunála siá. Thrash him. Bunáli …
Read the complete definitionA portable timekeeper, with a heavy compensation balance, and usually beating half seconds; -- intended to keep time with great …
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