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tappaa — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • burn noun An injury to skin or tissue caused by heat, fire, chemicals, or radiation.
  • dispatch verb To send something or someone off promptly for a specific purpose.
  • frag noun A fragmentation grenade.
  • hit verb To strike someone or something, often forcefully.
  • kill verb To cause the death of a person, animal, or living thing.
  • slay verb To kill.
  • whack verb To hit something hard and sharply.

Senses

tappaa is used for these senses in English:

  • burn (transitive) To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
  • dispatch (transitive) To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
  • dispatch (transitive) To destroy (someone or something) quickly and efficiently.
  • do in (transitive, colloquial) To kill or end; to defeat.
  • frag (transitive, military, and, video games, slang) To hit with the explosion of a fragmentation grenade.
  • hit (transitive, slang) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
  • kill (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
  • kill (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.

burn — full definition

  1. noun An injury to skin or tissue caused by heat, fire, chemicals, or radiation.
  2. noun A sharp, cutting insult, especially one delivered wittily.
  3. verb To be damaged, destroyed, or consumed by fire.
  4. verb To injure with heat, fire, or a caustic substance.
  5. verb To copy data onto a CD, DVD, or similar disc.

dispatch — full definition

  1. verb To send something or someone off promptly for a specific purpose.
  2. verb To deal with a task or piece of business quickly and efficiently.
  3. noun A message, report, or shipment sent promptly, often an official or urgent one.

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