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    What it means

    Literally “to lay as a corpse.” Means to kill or knock down — to floor someone completely, to strike them dead. Used both literally and hyperbolically.

    Vocabulary

    • trup — corpse, dead body

    Grammar note

    'Trupem' is the instrumental of 'trup' — predicate instrumental of result. 'Kłaść kogoś trupem' — to lay someone out cold.

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