Verb Transitive

MEANING

 To dispatch a sick person; to finish a sick orwounded animal.

Example of use

Amufumbwila imbushi, MEANING: He has slaughtered agoat was wounded.

 RELATED WORDS/USES/SOURCES/FUNCTIONS

NOTE:It is said that paramount chiefs were dispatched by strangling when all hope ofrecovery was lost. If they died a natural death it was believed that they would‘carry the land away with them’.

MEANING:The soil would become barren; hunting and fishing would give no result andstarvation would spread over the land. SYNONYM/SIMILAR WORD/COMPARE/CONTRAST :–Sumbulwila.

PASSIVE:–Fumbulwilwa.

FIGURATIVESPEECH/IDIOMS/PHRASES/COLLOQUIAL USE/EXPRESSIONS

Nil.

PROVERBS

Nil.