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Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

mōḍaṇēṃ (मोडणें).—v c (muṭa or muḍa S) To break. This is the general sense both of this verb and of the verb tōḍaṇēṃ, but the implications and aspects of the two verbs are very different: the difference however it is not difficult to apprehend and state. tōḍaṇēṃ implies Severing or sundering by some violent action (not by pounding, or by beating with anything ponderous or massive, but) by forcible application of some edged instrument, or by sudden and smart pulling. tōḍaṇēṃ therefore is Hewing, hacking, slashing, chopping, cleaving, riving, splitting, lopping; also snapping, bursting, rending, ripping, plucking: whereas mōḍaṇēṃ is to be explained as implying Dissolution or destruction of the FORM OF STATE, and whether with or without violence. mōḍaṇēṃ therefore is Battering, bruising, shattering, smashing, demolishing, razing, crushing, routing, scattering, disbanding, quashing, subduing, taming (i. e. reducing to humbleness or weakness), violating, infringing, stopping (causing to cease), interrupting, disturbing, suspending &c. &c., and almost throughout the senses both literal and figurative of all these words. Attentive study of the following particular significations and popular applications of this verb, and also of those appearing under tōḍaṇēṃ, will empower the learner to discern the sense BREAK pervading the explication of both the verbs; to apprehend the distinction here made betwixt them; and both to understand them in the mouths of the people, and to apply and use them upon his own occasions. 1 To break down; to demolish, to destroy, to raze (a building). 2 To break up; to break into its parts or elements (a machine or compacture). 3 To break by bending (kāṭhī, vēta, lākūḍa, a stick &c.): also to break off or to bend down (kaṇasēṃ, bhuṭē, heads of corn). 4 To break up or to break off (maitrakī, saṅgata, dukānadārī, vyavahāra, friendships, associations, business). 5 To break up; to dissolve, disband, dismiss (bājāra, maṇḍaḷī, a market, a council, any meeting or assembly): to rout, disperse, scatter (an army, a crowd). 6 To break, reduce, change (mōharā, rupayē, high monies into low): to break down; to reduce into the metal (nāṇīṃ, ḍāginē, coins, trinkets): to turn into cash; to dispose of by sale (an animal or an article). 7 To break up; to destroy, disturb, interrupt (sleep, quiet, any settled state or any proceeding business). 8 To break, destroy, displease (mana, marjī, one's mind, desire, purpose, pleasure). 9 To break up; to destroy the structure, order, or fashion of (pāgōṭēṃ, niṛyā, any arrangement or adjustment). 10 To break up, depopulate, desolate (vastī, a village or a habitation). 11 To break, knock down, redargue, confute (pakṣa, mata, vāda, a side, cause, dogma, argument). 12 To spend, destroy, consume, kill (vēḷa, kāḷa, divasa, time, days). 13 To break the force of; to quench, extinguish, appease, settle, remove (tahāna, bhūka, kāḷajī, saṃśaya, bhaya). 14 To break; to bring down, suppress, subdue (khōḍa, vyasana, garva, khaya, vices, tricks, pride, conceit). 15 To break; to put down, quell, crush, compose, settle (an insurrection, tumult, quarrel). 16 To break, infringe, violate (laws, orders, promises, engagements). 17 To abrogate or abolish (ordinances, rites, customs). 18 To reduce to bankruptcy or to ruin, to break. 19 To efface, obliterate, extinguish, annihilate. Used in numerous applications; and answering to Blot out, wipe out, rub out, make to cease. Pr. gāḍīcī vāṭa phēsāṭīnēṃ mōḍāvī. 20 mōḍaṇēṃ, as signifying To break down into some other form or state, is contradistinguished, not only from tōḍaṇēṃ To break by cutting or sudden pulling, but also from phōḍaṇēṃ To break or burst open. See phōḍaṇēṃ. Again, mōḍaṇēṃ To break down &c. and tōḍaṇēṃ To cut (down, up, off) are well contradistinguished in the phrases rāna mōḍaṇēṃ & rāna tōḍaṇēṃ, the first importing To abolish the woody form or character of a place; the second, To hew down or to lop the trees--the first, to destroy or remove the woodiness, the second, to hew the wood. Again, mōḍaṇēṃ, tōḍaṇēṃ, & phōḍaṇēṃ may be distinguished thus:--ghara mōḍaṇēṃ To break down a house; ghara tōḍaṇēṃ To break up a house; i. e. to disperse or divide the members of a household; ghara phōḍaṇēṃ To break through or into a house. Lastly, mōḍaṇēṃ, as from the Sanskrit root muṭa To destroy the form or state, is but the Latin Mut-o To change. gāṃva-rāna-gharēṃ mōḍaṇēṃ To go over or roam through a village, a wild, houses or dwellings; with implication (generally) of unprofitable trudging. mōḍūna kāḍhaṇēṃ or ṭākaṇēṃ To foil or non-plus in argument; to confound, confute, pose.

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mōḍaṇēṃ (मोडणें).—v i (muṭa or muḍa S) That this verb mōḍaṇēṃ, rendering, both in the active voice and as neuter, such hourly service to the Natives, may be mastered and reduced to our own service, we should, first, study the explication and the distinction drawn out under it as active; secondly, study in order the senses presented in that voice, noting that they (except the few which are given also here) admit of conversion into the passive voice, but not into the neuter; thirdly, descend to consider the senses strictly neuter which follow be- low:--and through them all trace and discern the radical and essential sense To break down, bend, yield, fail; to lose present standing, state, or form. 1 To break; to break or to bend under pressure or force. 2 To break; to suffer impairing or to decline in constitution or health. 3 To break up; to become depopulated or desolate--a town or village: to dilapidate or fall into ruin--a house or building. 4 To break up; to solve, separate, disperse--an associated or assembled body. 5 To break up; to cease, discontinue, become extinct--a concern or business, an employment or means of subsistence. 6 To break, fail, become bankrupt. 7 To pass away, pass, lapse--days, time. 8 To follow after the course, style, or fashion of. Ex. marāṭhī bhāṣā saṃskṛtācyā mōḍaṇīnēṃ mōḍatī hī mūrkhasamajūta āhē. 9 To lie, be, or pass in subordinate connection with; to follow in the compass, comprehension, or inclusion of, in the belly, body, train, or wake of. Ex. suvarṇadurgākhālīṃ murūḍa mōḍatēṃ; śivardhanīsupārīcyā nāṃvākhālīṃ murūḍacī hī mōḍatī; gajādi mhaṭalā asatāṃ gajācyā pōṭīṃ sarva vanya paśu mōḍatāta. 10 To fall into oblivion or desuetude--practices, fashions. 11 To break down; to yield, fail, sink (as under infirmities or through great fatigue). Used simply, or with yēṇēṃ, and of the body or limbs. Ex. aṅga mōḍūna yētēṃ or hātapāya mōḍūna yētāta The body (or the limbs) ache and fail, as if broken or generally luxated (as when fever is approaching). 12 To break; to lose force, vehemence, intensity. Ex. ragaḍūna pāūsa paḍēla tēvhāṃ garamī mōḍēla. 13 As mōḍaṇēṃ active is contradistinguished from tōḍaṇēṃ, so mōḍaṇēṃ neuter is contradistinguished from tuṭaṇēṃ, which verb therefore see. mōḍatēṃ ghēṇēṃ To decline, recede, fall back.

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mōdaṇēṃ (मोदणें).—v i (Poetry. mōda S) To rejoice; to be glad or delighted.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

mōḍaṇēṃ (मोडणें).—v t Break; destroy; break up. Change. Spend.v i Be included in. Pass. Become desolate.mōḍūna kāḍhaṇēṃ-ṭākaṇēṃ Non-plus in argument; confute.

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mōdaṇēṃ (मोदणें).—v i Rejoice; be glad.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

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