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[ˌtəˈkan] · verb
(Singapore, colloquial, slang) To bully or treat harshly, to punish (especially in military contexts)..
"Wah lau! You tekan him, ah? But he bigger than you, man!"
We have also been through training and we all kena tekan (were bullied), but even if we were ill-treated, we didn’t know that we were being ill-treated
When Hamdan joined their cell, Iryan told him the 1.6m-tall victim was someone they could tekan (bully).
It will expose us to different ways of thought … like waking up at 4am and being tekan.
Use tekan when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tekan means (Singapore, colloquial, slang) To bully or treat harshly, to punish (especially in military contexts)..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
"Wah lau! You tekan him, ah? But he bigger than you, man!"
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