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Meaning of sumjao | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

To threaten or coerce.

India, obsolete, transitive

Examples

“[…] 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.”
“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.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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