2. (verb) (-tia) to crunch.
E tama mā ē, karihitia mai e koe ki te wai o te niho (M 2006:462). / O sons all, crunch all and with your teeth moistened (M2006:463).
3. (modifier) nuclear.
I te tau 1984 ka motu te herenga ki ANZUS, i te kore whakaae o Aotearoa kia tau ngā kaipuke pūngao karihi (Te Ara 2015). / In 1984 the ties to ANZUS were severed because New Zealand refused to allow nuclear-armed ships to come.
4. (noun) sinkers attached to the lower edge of a drag net.
I mōhio tonu ia ki te takahanga o te kaharunga o te kupenga ki raro ki ngā waewae, ka puritia ko te kahararo o te kupenga i mau ai ngā karihi, arā, ngā kōhatu pēhi mō te kupenga (JPS 1893:220). / He understood how to step upon the upper rope of the fishing net, and hold the lower rope to which the sinkers were fastened. that is the stones weighing down the net.
5. (noun) kernel, stone (of a fruit).
6. (noun) nucleus (of a cell or atom).
Ko te karihi te wāhanga whakahaere i te mahi a te pūtau (RP 2009:243). / The nucleus is the part of the cell which controls its function (RP 2009:243).
tauhohe karihi
1. (noun) nuclear reaction.
Ināianei, e whakamahia ana tēnei mātauranga ki te whakaputa pūngao karihi, ki te hanga hoki i te pahū karihi. Kāore e ārikarika te tukunga o te pūngao i te tauhohe karihi (RP 2009:243). / Today this knowledge is used to produce nuclear energy and to build nuclear bombs. Much energy is released in a nuclear reaction.
karihi te niho
1. (verb) to inflict defeat.
He rangatira taua tangata nō Ngāti Haumia, hapū o Taranaki, he uri nō Tūwhakairikawa, te tangata nōna te whakapepeha e mau nei i ōna whakatupuranga katoa, arā, 'Nāna i karihi te niho o Taranaki.' (TWMNT 5/1/1872:32). / That man was a chief from Ngāti Haumia, a subtribe of Taranaki, and a descendant of Tūwhakairikawa, the man who was spoken about in a saying which is still applied to all his generation, that is, 'It was he who inflicted defeat for Taranaki.'
