wunjure

Naija

Alternative Form

Etymology

From: The clipping and blending of the English words wound and injure

Pronunciation

  • wúndʒɔ̀

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Verb

Transitive

  1. Make person take open eye injure person.
    • No let me wounjure you o.  — (Do not let me inflict a severe injury on you.)
    • Di youth from dat community wey dey vex really wounjure di oder people over land mata.  — (The youths from the aggrieved community succeeded in inflicting serious injuries on the other community over land crisis.)
    • Di goalkeeper wunjure di referee for di match.  — (The goalkeeper deliberately injured the referee during the match.)
  2. Make person take all e power nack somebody.
    • Di babe don warn am sey e go wunjure am for bed dis night.  — (The lady threatened to have rough sex with him tonight.)
    • You go wunjure o, guy if you do anyhow.  — ( You are going to get yourself injured if you misbehave.)
  3. Make person wound bad bad.
    • You go wunjure o, guy if you do anyhow.  — (You are going to get yourself injured if you misbehave.)

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Translations

English: to cause serious injury, to be in dire situation