turaki
1. (verb) (-na) to throw down, pull down, tear down, collapse, push down, overthrow, subdue, demolish, oppose.
Kātahi ka puta mai a Tawa me tana ope taua o Te Arawa anō i te 7 o Pēpuere, ka turakina te haki mā, te tohu o te rangaawatea (TTR 1990:221). / Then Gilbert Mair and his Te Arawa troops appeared on 7 February and tore down the white flag, the symbol of a truce.
2. (verb) to come as a supplement, follow.
Ka haere atu koutou āpōpō, ka turuki atu mātou i muri (W 1971:461). / You will go tomorrow and we will follow later.
3. (modifier) abolishing, prohibiting.
Ko te wāhi hou o tēnei pōti ko te whakaaetanga o te taha turaki i te waipiro kia utua te moni e whā miriona pauna me te hāwhe (£4,500,000) ki te rōpū whakatū hōtēra mehemea ka tupono te hinga o te taha whakatū waipiro i tēnei pōti (TKO 12/2/1919:3). / The new part of this election is the agreement of the alcohol prohibitionists to pay four and a half million pounds (£4,500,000) to the association erecting hotels if the side supporting alcohol happens to be defeated at this election.
turakanga
1. (noun) circumstance of throwing down, destruction, demolition - derived noun form from turaki.
I tonoa atu a Waitiri ki te Kāreti o Te Aute kura ai, engari nā te turakanga a te rū i tētahi wāhi o te kura i Te Matau-a-Māui i te tau 1931, i mutu wawe ai tana kura (TTR 2000:240). / Waitiri was sent to Te Aute College to be educated, but because of destruction by the earthquake of part of the school in Hawke's Bay in 1931, his schooling was cut short.
