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sumjao

sumjao verb: to threaten or coerce.

Verb

sumjao

  1. (India, obsolete, transitive) To threaten or coerce.
    • […] to double the number of the secretaries, so that one portion of them may do the work, while the other carry up papers to the Council and sumjao its members.1883, Hyderabad Affairs, volume 3, page 210
    • He comes to sumjao the English and incidentally to crown the great work of his lifetime. Not, be it observed, to sumjao the Ministry or the Foreign Office. They are apparently quite tractable already.1912, The National Review, volume 59, page 607

Origin of sumjao

From Hindi [Term?], an imperative verb form meaning "cause to know, warn, correct", usually with the implication of physical coercion.

Questions about sumjao

What does sumjao mean?
Sumjao means to threaten or coerce.
What part of speech is sumjao?
Sumjao is a verb.

Words near sumjao in the dictionary

  1. Sumisip
  2. sumithrin
  3. Sumitomo
  4. Sumitomos
  5. Sumitra
  6. sumjao
  7. Sumler
  8. Sumlers
  9. sumless
  10. Sumlin
  11. Sumlins

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