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From បាត់ (bat, “to disappear”) with prefixed bVN- (causative). cognate with Thai บำบัด (bam-bàt)
បំបាត់ • (bɑmbat) (abstract noun ការបំបាត់)
- to cause to disappear, to eliminate, to get rid of, to remove, to abolish