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To make rice-porridge, to boil rice in more than an ordinary quantity of water for the purpose of making "linúgaw". Lugáwa ang bugás. Boil the rice very soft and in much water. Lugáwi ang masakít sing bugás nga maputî. Make porridge of white rice for the sick person. Metaphorically: Indì mo kamí paglugáwon. Don't fool (flatter) us.
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To fail, lose, have one's hopes dashed; to balk, frustrate, prevent, baffle. (see lugáw-an).
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Fiasco, failure, frustrated efforts, baffled hopes. (see lugáw-an).
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Gruel, rice-porridge, rice boiled very soft and crushed to pulp in a generous allowance of water, often given to sick people. (see lúgaw).
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To be bereft of, suffer the loss or want of, be without, fail. The forms malugáw-an and nalugáw-an are commonly used in the meaning of mawád-an, nawád-an. Indì silá malugáw-an dirâ sing palamúgnan. They will not suffer there from unemployment. They will not be stranded there without work. (see pás-aw, gamón).
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