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Verbs of force and damage

  • forceà. ‘to apply a force’
    • ràxp. ‘to pull’
    • ràwb. ‘to push’
    • stressà. ‘to apply stress; to deform; to break (by any kind of stress)’
      • nàwb. ‘to inflate, to stretch; to burst, to rip, to tear (by outward force)’
      • yzàj. ‘to (com)press, to squeeze; to crush (by inward force)’
      • làjg. ‘to bend; to break (by bending)’
      • tràd. ‘to twist; to break (by torsion)’
      • dwnàt. ‘to hit; to shatter, to smash (by hitting)’
  • vnà. ‘to burn [down]’
  • mlàtx. ‘to melt’

Strictly speaking, forceà. ‘to apply a force’ and its sub-category verbs don’t entail moving, deforming or bending something; but they usually are understood this way via semantic narrowing.