نكل بالأهالي

English translation: punished the locals severely/ made an example of the locals

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Arabic term or phrase:نكل بالأهالي
English translation:punished the locals severely/ made an example of the locals
Entered by: Assem Mazloum

15:06 Nov 30, 2007
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Arabic term or phrase: نكل بالأهالي
اقتحمت القوات العسكرية المخيم ونكلت بالأهالي
loucy
Local time: 13:40
punished the locals severely/ made an example of the locals
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Assem Mazloum
Germany
Local time: 12:40
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Summary of answers provided
5 +4punished the locals severely/ made an example of the locals
Assem Mazloum
5torture
Abdallah Ali
5devastated the populace
zax
4tortured civilians
Iman Khaireddine
4wreaked havoc among the local population
Yasser El Helw


  

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tortured civilians


Explanation:
tortured civilians

Iman Khaireddine
United Kingdom
Local time: 11:40
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
PRO pts in category: 32
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torture


Explanation:
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Note added at 4 mins (2007-11-30 15:10:25 GMT)
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Depending on the action taken against them, it could be insult, humiliation or beating.

Abdallah Ali
United Kingdom
Local time: 11:40
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 51
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wreaked havoc among the local population


Explanation:
Famine, Turks, and Plague: impressions from Graz -- Mackenbach 16 ...... by swarms of locusts), Turks (invaders to the country wreaking havoc among the local population), and Plague (another epidemic of the ‘Black Death’). ...
eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/16/2/117 - Similar pages

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... twenty years “to install the Ten Commandments” in Uganda, wreaking havoc among the local population and leaving death and destruction in their wake. ...
www.mcrg.ac.in/Spheres/Patrick.doc - Similar pages


Yasser El Helw
Egypt
Local time: 13:40
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in EnglishEnglish
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punished the locals severely/ made an example of the locals


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Assem Mazloum
Germany
Local time: 12:40
Native speaker of: Arabic
PRO pts in category: 48
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Hasan Abu Khalil: punished severely or heavily
22 mins
  -> thank you Hasan

agree  Steve Booth
3 hrs
  -> thank you Emandan

agree  Samya Salem (X)
15 hrs
  -> thank you nurelislam

agree  Mohsin Alabdali: I agree only to "made an example of the locals".
16 hrs
  -> thank you Mohsin, both could work though.
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devastated the populace


Explanation:
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zax
Local time: 06:40
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
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