wunjure

Naija

Alternative Form

• wunjor, wounjure

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• wúndʒɔ̀

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Verb

Transitive

• Make person take open eye injure person.

• No let me wounjure you o.  — (Egbokhare_2020. Do not let me inflict a severe injury on you.)
• De youth from dat community wey dey vex really wounjure de oder people over land mata.  — (Egbokhare_2020. The youths from the aggrieved community succeded in inflicting serious injuries on the other community over land crisis.)
• Messi wunjure Ronaldo for the match.  — (NSC_Abonyi_2020, Messi deliberately injured Ronaldo during the match.)

• Make person take all e power nack somebody.

• I go wunjure you for bed this night.  — (NSC_Abonyi_2020, I will have rough sex with you tonight.)

Intransitive Verb

• Make person wound bad bad.

• You go wunjure o, guy if you do anyhow.  — (NSC_Abonyi_2020, You are going to get yourself injured if you misbehave.)

Related forms

• wound, injure

Synonym

• wound, injure

Translations

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